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Title: Travels and politics in the Near East
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, William, 1864-1945
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Balkan Peninsula
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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en side by side, and the muezzin calls thefaithful to prayer from the minaret of stone or wood,while the church bell invites the Christians to theirdevotions. One of the ornaments of the capital is thebeautiful Sclieriatschiilc, or college for the education ofMoslem jurists, which was erected by the present ad-ministration, where young Mohammedans are taught, byteachers of their own religion, the Scheri, or Mussulmanlaw, and the Arabic language. Within its walls thereis all the order of an English college, each student hashis room and his shelves of books ; a tiny mosque opensout of the fountained courtyard, and a dining-hall isprovided for the general use of the students. We noticedthat forks were laid upon the table—an arrangementintended, we were told, to familiarise the students withEuropean table manners, because they were fre-quently asked out to dinner. Close to, the Mussulmanshave a reading-room of their own, where the latestpapers from Stambul and their own organs in the 94
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Travels and Politics Bosnian press are eagerly devoured, and for their specialconvenience the Government is building a new hotelat Ilidze, the watering-place of Bosnia. The Austrianswillingly admitted those Turkish officials, who enteredtheir service at the outset, to fill places for which theywere qualified, so that they might not consider them-selves badly treated. 1 met one of these personages ina small Bosnian town, who, being no scholar, had beenprovided with a sinecure post as a policeman, and enjoyedthe double advantage of an elegant leisure and a regularsalarv. The administration also affords its Mohammedanemployees every facility for making the pilgrimage toMecca, and eighty to a hundred Bosnian pilgrimsannually set out on the sacred journey with the joyfulconviction that on their return they will be regarded bytheir co-religionists as saints, while at the same time theywill be reinstated in their old posts. A doctor accom-panies the pilgrims, and in times of plague I have se

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