besslamah

Updated: June 21, 2025

My camel-driver came up to me in his usual soft sneaking way, and began his pious jargon: "God be praised for Yâkob, because he has arrived safe in Ghadames now God is one, and above all things powerful. Besslamah." This he was wont to repeat en route.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846