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Muslims are required to fast from shirt worn under another garment. tizi: mountain pass.
sunrise to sunset. sharia: religious law based on the wadi: river bed that is dry or semi-
reg: stony desert. teachings of the Koran. dry except in rainy season; river;
riad: traditional residence organized sheikh: chief of a tribal subdivision
around a courtyard planted with or the leader of a religious river valley. Anglicized form
trees and flowers. brotherhood. of oued.
ribat: fortified monastery from sherif (pl. shorfa): descendant of zakat: obligatory almsgiving.
where Muslim warrior monks set the Prophet Mohammed. One of the five pillars of Islam.
out to spread the Islamic faith. shorfa: see sherif.
seguia: irrigation canal for crops. souk: market, laid out according to zaouia: seat of a religious
serdal: brightly coloured scarf the various goods and services that brotherhood that gives religious
worn by Berber women, decorated the stallholders offer. instruction, the shrine where a
with coins. sura: verse of the Koran. marabout (qv) is buried.
seroual: loose, calf-length trousers tighremt: Berber word for a kasbah zellij: geometric tilework,
fastened at the waist and the knees, (qv). A fortified patriarchal house
worn under the jellaba (qv). several storeys high with towers at typically arranged in intricate,
shamir: long, wide-sleeved man’s the corners. colourful patterns.

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