ABSTRACT
In order to explain the sect o f Mahomet, you must know that over the said tower there is a cupola, in which you can walk round the top, that is, outside.8 Y ou must understand enceinte and the curtain which surrounds her father’s remains.” Burckhardt describes it thus : “ Near the curtain o f the Hejrah [Hujrah], but separated from it, though within the precincts o f the railing, which here, to admit it, deviates a little from its square shape, is the tomb o f Sitna Fatima, the daughter o f Mohammed and wife o f A li. But some difference o f opinion exists whether her remains actually rest here, or in the burial-ground called Bakya, beyond the town.”
