Word: muezzins
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...early and uncorrupted days, Raisuli was a theological student in the Mohammedan schools of Tetuan, and might today have been a muezzin--truly a romantic figure, but hardly likely to perplex the Spanish government. At present, he is an expert purveyor of hot water: his daily production floods the Spanish market with trouble. As long as Raisuli is doing the acrobatic in Tangier, that sector of the international map will pull the front pages. Meanwhile, he is an answer to those sceptics who doubt the existence of "real, live, kidnapping sheiks...
...Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy doorway; and as a consequence marquises and masons hobnobbed in a state of democratic conviviality...
...When muezzin is near...
Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...