zaouiahs

Updated: May 21, 2025

It is they who pander to all the worst qualities of the Arabs, improvident and incorrigible loafers, besides affording an asylum to every criminal; their zaouiahs, like our own mediaeval convents, are often enough mere menageries of deformed minds and bodies.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia