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- noun Alternative spelling of
zawiya .
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Examples
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A workman was just leaving, and peering over his shoulder I saw that inside was a zaouia, a place of worship for Sufis, with tombs of Sufi saints covered in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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A workman was just leaving, and peering over his shoulder I saw that inside was a zaouia, a place of worship for Sufis, with tombs of Sufi saints covered in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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A workman was just leaving, and peering over his shoulder I saw that inside was a zaouia, a place of worship for Sufis, with tombs of Sufi saints covered in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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A workman was just leaving, and peering over his shoulder I saw that inside was a zaouia, a place of worship for Sufis, with tombs of Sufi saints covered in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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_zaouia_ [A] which encloses it dates from the reign of Moulay-Ismaël, the seventeenth-century Sultan of Meknez, and the mosque itself, and the green minaret shooting up from the very centre of old Fez, were not built until 1820.
In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899
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