Chapter 10

Mutual influences of the two creeds--Socially and intellectually--"No monks in Islam"--Faquirs--The conventual system adopted by the Arabs--Arab account of a convent--Moslem nuns--Islam Christianised---Christian spirit in Mohammedanism--Arab magnanimity--Moslem miracles---like Christian ones--Enlightened Moslems--Philosophy--Freethinkers--Theologians--Almanzor--Moslem sceptics--Averroes--The faquis or theologians--Sect of Malik ibn Ans--Power of theologians---Decay of Moslem customs--Wine drunk--Music cultivated--Silk worn--Statues set up--Turning towards Mecca--Eating of sow's flesh--Enfranchisement of Moslem women--Love--Distinguished women---Women in mosques--At tournaments--Arab love-poem--Treatise on love 136-149