July 2, 1999
A Western Professor Sifts Through the Centuries for the Lost Voices of Islam
An Egyptian man in a flowing blue robe lays his right hand on the wooden screen surrounding the green-shrouded, perfumed tomb of a Muslim saint. Methodically he rubs the same hand on each of his limbs, and then turns to rub his back up and down, cat-like, on the elaborately carved wood.
Standing nearby in his stockinged feet, Christopher Taylor quietly observes the ritual. He's a social historian of Islam, on sabbatical here from Drew
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