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  • “O my mother,” rejoined he, “no harm can befall him who is in Allah’s keeping, and the Maghribi is a man of worth;” and he went on to praise his condition to her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • [FN#68] In classical Arabic the word is "Maghribi," the local form of the root Gharaba = he went far away (the sun), set, etc., whence "Maghribi" = a dweller in the Sunset-land.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • During its clearing operations, Israel demolished the Maghribi Quarter adjacent to the Western Wall, destroyed the al-Buraq Mosque and the Tomb of the Sheikh al-Afdhaliyyah, and displaced about 175 Arab families.

    Why Jerusalem? Israel's Hidden Agenda 2009

  • Maghribi said to Judar, Go on to the fourth door and knock and it shall be opened to thee, when there will come forth to thee

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He slept well that night and next morning he took his net and going down to Lake Karun stood there and was about to cast his net, when behold, there came up to him a second Maghribi, riding on a she mule more handsomely accoutred than he of the day before and having with him a pair of saddle bags of which each pocket contained a casket.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • On the fifth day, they arrived at Fez and Mequinez and entered the city, where all who met the Maghribi saluted him and kissed his hands; and he continued riding through the streets, till he came to a certain door, at which he knocked, whereupon it opened and out came a girl like the moon, to whom said he, “O my daughter, O Rahmah,275 open us the upper chamber.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Moor, who clad him in new clothes every day, and all this time they ate from the saddle bags; for the Maghribi bought neither meat nor bread nor aught else, nor cooked, but brought everything out of the bags, even to various sorts of fruit.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then the Maghribi laid the saddle bags before him, and, putting in his hand, pulled out dish after dish, till they had before them a tray of forty kinds of meat, when he said to Judar,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Judar said to the Maghribi, “I have on my neck a mother and two brothers, whose provider I am; and if I go with thee, who shall give them bread to eat?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the servants of the treasure beat Judar and cast him out and the hoard doors closed of themselves, whilst the river waters returned to their bed, Abd al-Samad the Maghribi took Judar up in haste and repeated conjurations over him, till he came to his senses but still dazed as with drink, when he asked him, “What hast thou done, O wretch?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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