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Wit and Wisdom in Morocco [Paperback]

Edward Westermarck (Author)

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Publication Date: May 20, 2003

A study of native proverbs. This book completes Westermarck's trilogy on the customs and ideas of the Moors, which is based on nine years' experience among them in the course of more than three decades. A large number of the proverbs found in this volume are sentences conveying a statement of a more or less general character which is either literally or metaphorically applicable to individual cases; but the statement of some particular event, real or imaginary, may also be a proverb, though only on condition that it may be figuratively applied to other events reminiscent of it. Proverbs have become proverbs only by being used in definite concrete situations.

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (May 20, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0766157806
ISBN-13: 978-0766157804
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.1 x 1 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,781,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
ISLAM looks upon women with an unfriendly and suspicious eye. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
widespread proverb, contrasted words, conditional curse

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Style, Great Feast, Marriage Ceremonies, Northern Morocco

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Citations (learn more)

This book cites 5 books:

Dictionary of ISLAM by H. C. Hughes on page 68
Ritual and Belief in Morocco (2 volume set) by Edward Westermarck in Back Matter
English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by William C. Hazlitt in Front Matter
A Dictionary of Islam by Thomas Patrick Hughes on page 68
Ashanti Proverbs (Oxford Reprints) by Robert Sutherland Rattray in Front Matter

14 books cite this book:

Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Roxanne L. Euben in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Morocco: The Traveller's Companion, Second Edition by Margaret Bidwell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Proverbs: A Handbook (Greenwood Folklore Handbooks) by Wolfgang Mieder on page 134, and Back Matter
Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco (History and Society in the Islamic World) by David M. Hart on page 26
Counsel from the Ancients: Study of Badoga Proverbs, Prayers, Omens and Curses by Paul Hockings in Back Matter

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