I knew this stuff had to be illegal!
Nov. 29th, 2004 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cheeni
“...As to the coffee it is an innovation, which curtails sleep and the generating power in man. Coffee-houses are houses of confusion. Coffee has been by law declared illicit in the great collections of fetwas (legal injunctions) wherein every thing that is burnt is declared to be illegal food. ”
Evliya Efendi (During Ramadan in 1539 CE Cairo's coffeehouses were raided and closed, although only for a few days.)
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Date: 2004-11-28 11:30 am (UTC)