They are people who are not known.
-Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World, Anthony Sattin, 2022
KhairAllah was a professional herdsman, a Khabīr, an Expert. And he was widely known along the Darb, in villages in Sudan and Upper Egypt as well as in Cairo. Because a Kabbāshi handshake is multiphasic and takes a minute or more to complete, when he had just arrived at Imbaba and was among his camel market friends, it took an hour for KhairAllah to give all of them his Salām ‘Alaikums and answer each Hamdillah Salāmtak, Praise God for Your Safe Delivery.
©David Melody. Ceci n’est pas un nomade