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. of the Koran), 213

Anthropophagy (allowed when it saves life), 186

Anúshirwán = Anúshín-rawán = Sweet of Soul, 87

‘Ar (Al-) = shame, 138

Arab al-Arabá = Arab of pure and genuine blood, 101

Arab horses (breeds of), 246

Arab-land and Ajam = all the world over, 136

Arafat (mount where the victims are _not_ slaughtered), 295

Arithmetic (not mastered by Moslems), 236

Arsh = the ninth Heaven, 167

Asháb al-Suffah, 102

Atbák = trays, 264

Ayishah bint Talhah (granddaughter of Abu Bakr), 79

Ayn = eye, for helper, 60

Ayns (verset of the 140), 217

Azal = eternity without beginning (opposed to Abad = infinity), 390

Azán = call to prayer, 201

Ba’albak = Ba’al’s-city, 51

Bactrian camel, 371

Badal = substitute, 249

Badawi (truth-telling and blunt in speech), 98

Badinján = Solanum pomiferum, or S. Melongena, 4

Bahak = white leprosy, 294

Bahr al-Kunúz = Sea of Treasures, 37

Bahrwán (Pr. N. for Bihrún?), 329

Balábil, pl. of bulbul (nightingale) and ballalah (grief), 244

Baldrick (Hamáil), 158

Banú Ozrah (tribe renowned as lovers), 70

Baras = white leprosy, 294

Barmahát (seventh Coptic month), 231

Barmúdah (eighth Coptic month), 232

Basmalah = pronouncing the formula Bismillah, 206

—— (commonly pronounced “Bismalah”), 213

Bat (has seed like a man’s), 85

—— (Arab. Khuffásh, Watwát), 226

Baydak = pawn in chess, 243

Bayt (Al-) = the house (cage), 269

BE! and IT BECOMETH, 240; 286

Beard combed by the fingers in the Wuzú, 198; 209

Bida’ah = Innovation, 167

Biká’a = convents (pilgrimages to), 125

Bint Shumúkh (Pr. N. = daughter of pride), 382

Bird (created by Jesus), 211

—— (seen by Abu Bakr in the cave), 235

Birds (songs and cries of), 50

Bismilláh = in the name of Allah, 206

Bizá’at = capital, business-concern, 81

Blast (of the last trumpet), 310

Brain (_fons veneris_ in man), 46

Brasier (Kánún, Mankal), 273

Breast-bone (Taráib), 132

Breath (healing by the), 29

Bridal couch (attitudinising thereon), 75

Brotherhood (sworn in Allah Almighty), 43

Bulbul (departed with Tommy Moore. Englished by “nightingale”), 48

Bull (of the Earth = Gáw-i-Zamín), 324

Caliphate (defective title to), 116

Camel (-colts roasted whole), 135

—— (feeding on and vindictiveness), 135

—— (Bactrian), 371

Carat = 1/24 of a dinar or miskal something under 5d., 277

Chess, 243

Circumcision (how practised), 209

—— (female), 279

Cities (two-mosqued for large and consequently vicious ones), 66

Clitoris (Zambúr) and its excision, 279

Coffee (first mention of), 169

Coloquintida (Hanzal), 19

Commune (Jamá’at), 205

Covered (the, chapter of the Koran), 215

Cow (