SAINT LOUIS OR Sidi Bou Said (1st part) ANCIENT RUINS 
© photo Abbes Moncef
As we saw earlier in the post on the Crusades, St. Louis King of France died at Carthage in 1270 AD.,
the early 19 E, a legend is born and through the centuries, often used these days by tourist brochures.
It depicts Abu Saeed Khalaf Al Tamimi has Begi who lived between the second half of the 12th century until the first half of 13th and St. Louis from another era altogether confined to the 13th century.
Sidi Bou Said is born in 1156 and died in June 1231 and St. Louis was born in 1215 and died in August 1270 in Carthage.
Sidi Bou Said is well buried on the hill of Gebel El-Manar Mosque in his home-Zaouia become.
(It's in the late 19 th century that was adopted for the headland and the village's name: Sidi Bou Said).
The remains of St. Louis, King Louis IX are buried at St. Denis in France and partly in Sicily.
Each of their side and at times these two different characters marked their contemporaries.
Sidi Bou Said devotes Sufi his life to prayer and meditation (Wali Allah).
St. Louis is a King whose virtues have been recognized by the church.
Although being on a crusade against Tunis, it leaves a myth conveyed orally and still running ...
Legend.
She was born around 1841. Several authors speak of, let us remember that the first who wrote in 1890 in his book "Tunis and its surroundings."
He speaks of a so-called Muslim legend that it does not indicate origin.
According to this legend, the Arabs (sic) revere the memory of St. Louis to the marabout Sidi Bou Said where they claim it is based.
Louis IX, king valiant, good, just could not die infidel (ie Christian). God then sent two angels who converted to Islam.
This identification of St. Louis and Sidi Bou Said is inconsistent in my opinion, 40 years separate the dead. This
sometimes mythical legend is often told by natives to foreigners in search of fantastic stories. Thirty authors have taken according to their sources. They do not count less than thirty versions between 1833 and 1978.
It should be noted that all the authors are European, there is no Arab-Islamic written sources, unlike the much-used oral route at the time in our country. (Child, I often heard this story a mystery).
European authors are also their field of investigation in the village itself. A fact
politico-religious adds more mystery to the legend that is the prohibition for Jews and roumis access to the village, it was not until 1826 that the ban was lifted.
They contemplated, I guess since these surroundings: Byrsa Carthage or their arrivals, past the Cape to land at Tunis Carthage ...
is observed that the village marabout Sidi Bou Said, like many others served asylum:
"Until 1883 all criminal had the right to evade justice by fleeing before his arrest in a asylum where he sat under the protection of God or a revered patron.
We know what role played in this regard and especially the zaouias mausoleums of Sidi Ben Arousse, Sidi Mehrez and Sidi Bou Said. It was only two years after installation of the French protectorate, the right of asylum was abolished, the refugee can be chained and brought before the Authority '"(R. Darmon: bag and rope to the old country of Bey, in best-October 1958).
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