maulavis

Updated: May 12, 2025

Stand with me at sundown opposite the gateway of the mosque and watch the stream of worshippers flowing in through the portals of the house of prayer. Here are the rich purse-proud merchants of Persia, clad in their long black coats; there the full-bearded Maulavis.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay