Lo spettacolo delle ultime fasi della guerra nella Gerusalemme liberata, come appare agli occhi di Solimano, puo essere assunto a valore universale, a metafora dell' 'aspra tragedia de lo stato umano'" (The spectacle of the final stages of the war in Gerusalemme liberata, as it appears to Solimano, can be endowed with general significance as "the bitter tragedy of the human condition.

Think of how Abd al-Qadir pursued his rivalry with the Tijaniya, or how the Hafiziya struggle at Fez in 1907-1908 pitted the lower orders of Fasi society against the ayan in a contest in which the former's social radicalism warred with the latter's class based pragmatism.

With roughly 30 percent of the San Francisco market sewn up, FASI had revenues on the order of $3 million last year, according to Kahane, who is a vice president of FASI.