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ARABESQUE VIRTUAL ALCAZAR
"...when Nur al-Din entered Alexandria    he found it a city goodly of pleasances,     delightful to its inhabitants and inviting    to inhabit therein.
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Nur al-Din walked about the city and        ceased not walking till he came to the       merchants's bazar, whence he passed on    to the mart of the money-changers and so  on in turn to the markets of the    confectioners and fruiterers and druggists,  marveling,as he went, at the city, ..."
A Thousand Nights and  a Night -             translated by Sir Richard Burton
        the       Bazar 
The Tale of Ali Nur al-Din and Miriam
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19th c. print of a Bazaar in an Egyptian city
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Bazaar of  The Silk Merchants, Cairo           
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               Drug shop in Bazaar
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Persian woman embroidering a  rug.
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