The upper floors of the buildings bordering the street leading to the mosque feature mashrabiyya, intricate wooden lattice window screens. […] In contrast to the modest mashrabiyya overlooking the alley, on the side facing the main street, the buildings feature inviting open balconies accessed by louvered doors.

A thin gauzy dress fabric generally constructed with a cotton warp and a mohair filling. It is distinguished from mohair by its thinner and more filmy texture. High-grade mozambiques are often woven in fancy plaids and checks and complicated openwork patterns, and when of this style are intended to be made up over a foundation fabric.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture[…]

Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.