The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam

Chapter 23: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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About This Book

A collection of three ethnographic essays drawn from long-term travel and linguistic study that explore Jewish communities, Gypsy (Romani) groups, and Islamic belief and practice. The first essay sets out field observations made while resident in Damascus, describing social customs, religious observances, and controversial claims about ritual behavior that some contemporaries found sensitive. The second assembles decades of material on Romani origins and customs gathered across several continents, though planned additions were never completed. The final essay offers reflections on Islam informed by close acquaintance with Eastern societies. The work combines detailed ethnological description with polemical judgments, and an editor omitted a disputed appendix.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Archaic, obsolete and inconsistent spellings are maintained from the original book. There were no obvious misspellings. No changes were made to the text with the following exceptions:

some footnotes inserted to comment about transliterations,
for words in the Arabic alphabet (including Arabic, Persian, Sindhi, etc.) or Devangari (Sanskrit, Hindi, etc.), I have included a transliteration if one was not already in the text,
all footnotes moved to the end of their chapter,
CONTENTS, PREFACE, INDEX, and TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE added to the Table of Contents, and
added this note.

The cover was produced by transcriber using images in the book, and is hereby placed in the public domain.