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Sports The Model New York Times
More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be concerned in a religious endeavour. Prayers, incantations, and rituals of purification had been for hundreds of years an essential facet of the hand-to-hand combat of Islamic wrestlers. It was commonplace to mix the abilities of the wrestler with those of a mystic poet. Indeed, the celebrated 14th-century Persian pahlavan Maḥmūd Khwārezmī was each. Among the various games of North Africa was ta kurt om el mahag (“the ball of the…