mokka

Updated: May 2, 2025

This happens also in the Azhar at Cairo, where I have seen more than forty different persons occupied at the same time in delivering their lectures. The subjects of the lectures in the Beitullah of Mokka, are, as usual, dissertations on the law, commentaries on the Koran, and traditions of the Prophet.

John Lewis Burckhardt - Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred

"Gunga, Johnnie?" I asked, remembering the name of the sacred river Ganges from Kipling's "Kim." "No Gunga, sa'b Mahommedie, me." "You go Benares, Johnnie?" "No Benares." "Mecca?" "Mokka, yes; afterwards me go Mokka." "After the war you going to Mokka, Johnnie?" "Yes; Indee, France here Indee back again then Mokka." "You been to France, Johnnie?" "Yes, sa'b." "You know Kashmir, Johnnie?"

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.