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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURBASH, or KOURBASH (from the Arabic qurbash, a
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whip;
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Turkish girbach; and
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French courbache)  , a
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whip or strap about a yard in length, made of the hide of the
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hippopotamus or
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rhinoceros . It is an
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instrument of
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punishment and
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torture used in various
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Mahommedan countries, especially in the
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Turkish
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empire . "
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Government by
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kurbash " denotes the oppression of a
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people by the
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constant abuse of the kurbash to maintain authority, to collect taxes, or to pervert
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justice . The use of the kurbash for such purposes, once
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common in
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Egypt, has been abolished by the
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British authorities .

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