AN UNBIASED VIEW OF HAJAR 77

Hence, 9 or ten years in the past, over the testimony of a boy who swore that he saw the inside from the Kaaba defiled by a Persian, they rose up, cruelly conquer the schismatics, and carried them off for their peculiar quarter the Shamiyah, forbidding their ingress for the Kaaba. In truth, till Mohammed Ali's time, the Persians not often ventured