In response, Art. 15 of Qānūn al-Filāḥa passed in 1830 stipulated that … In the event of a fellah hiding himself among the bedouins, wearing their clothes, and being discovered among them afterward . . . the tribesman who hides him will be conscripted into the military service if he is a young man (shabb), and if an old man (ikhtiyār), he will be sent to jail (Liman) for six months.

Pays off: "Egyptian military law lacked provisions governing sodomy in 1824."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 661