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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER XVI
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But he never committed the folly of ordering any solemnity.
He neither learned nor repeated any prayer of the Koran, as many persons have asserted; neither did he advocate fatalism, polygamy, or any other doctrine of the Koran.

Bonaparte employed himself better than in discussing with the Imaums the theology of the children of Ismael.

The ceremonies, at which policy induced him to be present, were to him, and to all who accompanied him, mere matters of curiosity.

He never set foot in a mosque; and only on one occasion, which I shall hereafter mention, dressed himself in the Mahometan costume.

He attended the festivals to which the green turbans invited him.


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