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These could be tailored into waistcoats and other apparel conveying exceptional status — the owner would have needed to be extremely influential to secure a sample from the kiswah, even if it was replaced every year.
Wind of Change JDsg 2007
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HAVING resolved to perform the Meccah pilgrimage, I spent a few months at Cairo, and on the 22nd of May embarked in a small steamer at Suez with the “mahmil” or litter, and its military escort, conveying the “kiswah” or covering for the
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The most highly regarded inscribed cloths were those cut from the kiswah covering the Ka‘ba in Mecca.
Wind of Change JDsg 2007
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