Quote from Fez

Fez: City of Islam

by Titus Burckhardt

The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, United Kingdom      © 1992     176 pp.

A Geode of amethyst, brimful of thousands of tightly packed crystals and surrounded by a silver-green rim: this was Fez, the Old City of Fez, in the twilight. As we came downhill towards it, the hallow in which it lies grew visibly larger; the countless crystals, uniform in themselves, but irregularly grown into one another, now came more clearly into view; one side of them was light, while the other side, the one facing the prevailing wind, had become darkened and weather-beaten. Between them and the silver-green girdle of olive trees, the wall of the Old City with its towers could be seen. Towards the city gate now facing us--Bab al-Gissa--the small donkey caravans made their way as of old, and from out of the gate into the evening wind and towards the expense of green, came men and children in Moroccan dress; for it was spring, and the hills round about were covered with yellow and blue flowers.  (p. 3)

-- submitted by Jennifer Knight

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