Moor before the tomb

• moor before the tomb: Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (source used throughout this passage), xxiii: (of ancient Arab superstition) 'a few tied camels to the graves of the dead that the corpse might ride mounted to the judgement-seat'

• moor: a nautical term, as the camel is the “ship of the desert”

• Moor: north-western African Muslim person of mixed Berber and Arab descent. (Also a connection to Shakespeare’s Othello)
  • Other references to Shakespeare’s tragedies are nearby: → I ate the wind, cousin charmian

• moor uncultivated expanse

• moor ... tomb: Thomas Moore, Irish lyricist