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HOURI

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOURI  , the

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term for a beautiful virgin who awaits the devout
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Mahommedan in
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Paradise . The word is the
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French representative of the Pers. huri, Arab. hawra', a
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black-eyed virgin, from hawira, to be black-eyed, like a gazelle .

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