chapter ii
. of the Koran), 211
Creation (is it and its Empire not His?), 266
Crepitus ventris and Ethnology, 137
Cubit (the Háshimi = 18 inches), 371
Damon and Pythias, 104
Dáni wa gharíb = friend and foe, 42
Dánik = sixth part of a dirham, 112
Dead (buried at once), 190
Death (from love), 134
—— (every soul shall taste of it), 166
—— (of a good Moslem), 167
Devil (stoned at Mina), 203, 212
Devotees (address Allah as a lover would his beloved), 263
Dí’ibil al-Khuzá’i (poet), 127
Dimyat (vulg. Dumíyat) = Damietta, 171
Dissection (practised on Simiads), 220
Diyár-i-Bakr = maid-land, 66
Doggrel (royal), 55
—— (phenomenal), 288
—— (sad), 297
Door (behind it the door-keeper’s seat), 173
Dreams (lovers meet in), 47
Eatables (their exchange must be equal), 204
Eating (how it should be done), 206
Empire (endureth with infidelity but not with tyranny), 187
Eunuchs (and their wives), 46
—— (avoid allusion to their misfortune), 47
Eve (Arab. Hawwá), 139
Exaggerations, 306
Eye (likened to the letter Sád, the brow to Nun), 34
—— (Ayn, for helper), 60
Fá’il = agent, active (Sodomite), 156
Fakír = religious mendicant, 39
Fakru (Al-) fakhrí = poverty is my pride (saying of Mohammed), 268
Fál = omen, 126
Fars = Persia, 26
Fart (in return for chaff), 99
—— (and Badawi “pundonor”), 137
Fast (and its break), 201
—— (when forbidden), 265
Fátihah (position of the hands in reciting it), 80
—— (recited seven times for greater solemnity), 134
Faylasúf = philosopher, 234
Fealty of the Steep, 295
Fi’l-Khawáfik = among the flags, etc., 61
Fingers and toes (separated to wash between them), 198
“Fire (of Hell) but not shame”, 138
Fire (handled without injury, a common conjuring trick), 271
Fire-sticks (Zind, Zindah), 52
Fishár = squeeze of the tomb, 111
Fisherman (Arab contrasted with English), 51
“Forbid not yourselves the good things which Allah hath allowed you”, 216
Formication (accompanying a paralytic stroke), 251
Fruits (fresh and dry), 314
Garden (with rivers flowing under it, Koranic phrase), 356
Gáw-i-Zamín = the Bull of the Earth, 324
Genealogy (Arab, begins with Adnan), 100
Ghatrafán (Pr. N. = proud, petulant), 361
Ghaut = Sarídah, _q.v._, 223
Ghazanfar ibn Kamkhíl = Lion, son of (?), 363
Ghilmán (counterpart of the Houris), 64
Ghimd (Ghamad) = scabbard, 158
Ghoonj (Ghunj) = art of moving in coition, 80
Ghusl = complete ablution, 199
Girl (of nine plus five = in her prime), 192
Greetings before the world, 34
Habash = Abyssinia and something more, 395
Habbazá! = good this!, 52
Hádi (Al-), Caliph, 93
Hadís = saying of the Apostle, tradition, 201
Hajar Jahannam = hell-stone, lava, basalt, 378
Hajj = pilgrimage, 202
Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri llah (Caliph, not to be confounded with the Fatimite), 86
Hakk (Al-) = the Truth (Allah), 284
Halabi Shelebi = the Aleppine is a fellow fine, 64
Hamáil = baldrick, 158
Hamám = wood-pigeon, 49
—— (al-Ayk) = “culver of the copse”, _ib._
Hammám (hired for private parties), 63
Handfuls (the two), 207
Hands (their feel guides the physician), 220
Hands (how held in reciting the Fátihah), 80
—— (bitten in repentance), 191
Hanút = tavern, booth, etc., 142
Hanzal = coloquintida, 19
Haríri (Al-) = the silk-man (poet), 158
Harjáh = (a man of) any place?, 27
Hásib Karím al-Dín (Pr. N.), 298
Háshimí cubit = 18 inches, 371
“Haunted” = inhabited by Jinns, 175
Hawwá = Eve, 139
Haykal = temple, chapel, 192
Hazár = (the bird of) a thousand (songs), 48
Hazramaut (the Biblical Hazarmaveth), 136
Heart (from a, full of wrath = in spite of himself), 68
Hindí = Indian Moslem opposed to Hindú, 1
Hindibá = Endive, 226
Hírah (Christian city in Mesopotamia), 124
Hirakl (monastery of), 138
Hishám ibn Orwah (traditionist), 81
Hizb = section of the Koran, 217
Honayn (scene of one of Mohammed’s battles), 66
Honey (bees’, as distinguished from cane honey), 300
“Honey-moon” (lasts a week), 62
Horses (Arab breeds), 246
Hosh = mean courts at Cairo, 170
Hour (of Judgment), 235
House (haunted = inhabited by Jinns), 175
Hudúd al-Haram = bounds of the Holy Places, 148
Humours (of Hippocrates), 218
Hydropathic treatment of wounds held dangerous, 200
Hypocrite (Munáfik), 207
Iblís (Cherubim cherished by Allah), 319
—— (cursed and expelled), 320
Ibn Abbás (Companion), 212
I’itikáf (Al-) = retreat, 202
Ikálah (Al-) = cancelling, “resiliation,” 204
Iksir (Al-) = an essence (the philosopher’s “stone”), 315
Iláh = God, 196
Ilm al-Káf = K-science for Alchemy, 307
Images (of living beings forbidden), 3
—— = statues, 223
Impurity (ceremonial different from dirtiness), 209
Imsák = retention (prolongatio veneris), 76
In’ásh =raising from the bier (a “pick-me-up”), 67
Indrajál = white magic, 307
Innovation (Arab. Bida’ah), 167
Intention (of prayer, Niyat), 163; 196
Intercession (disputed doctrine), 241
Iskandar Zú al-Karnayn = Alexander Matagrobolized, 252
Isráfíl (blows the last trumpet), 310
Istikhárah = praying for direction by omens, etc., 44
Istinshák = snuffing water through the nostrils, 198
Ja’afar bin Musá al-Hádi (Caliph), 93
Jabal Mukattam (sea-cliff upon which Cairo is built), 383
Jabal Núr, 215
Jabal al-Saklá (Thaklá) = mount of the women bereft of children, 37
Jábir bin Abdallah (disciple of Mohammed), 215
Jahannam = Hell, 306; 318
Jalálah = saying “Jalla Jalálu-hu” = magnified be His Majesty, 217
Calla = gaberdine, 265
Jamá’at = community, 205
Jámi’ = cathedral mosque, 261
Jámi’ayn = two cathedrals, 66
Jamm = ocean, 93
Jánsháh (Pr. N. = King of Life), 326
Jarír (poet), 148
Jauzar = Bubalus (Ariel antelope), 130
Jawári = slave-girls, rhyming with dam’u jári = flowing tears, 160
Jesus (bird of), 211
—— (crucified in effigy), 238
—— (compared with Adam), _ib._
Jew (prefers dying on the floor, not in bed), 248
Judgment (hour of), 235
Juzám = black leprosy, 294
Kadisíyah (Al-), city in Irák, 294
Káfs (verset of the three-and-twenty), 217
Kahwajiyah = coffee-makers, 169
Kalamdán = pen-case, 239
Kalla-má = it is seldom, 150
Kanjifah = pack of cards, 243
Kánun = brasier, 272
Kári = Koran-reader, 216
Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdad, 127
Kárun = Korah of the Bible, 225
Kawáid (pl. of Káid = governor), 145
Khabál = pus flowing from the damned, 162
Khalíl (Al-) = the friend, _i.e._ of Allah = Abraham, 205
Khayál (Al-) = phantom, “ghost,” dream-visitor, 348
Khaysamah (traditionist), 81
Khawwás (Al-) = basket-maker, 283
Khilál = toothpick (emblem of emaciation), 44
Khizr (Al-), the Green Prophet, 384
Khuffásh = Bat, 226
Khunsá = hermaphrodite (also catamite), 91
Khusrau Parwíz and Shírín, _ib._
—— (his wealth), _ib._
Khutnah = circumcision, 209
Kiblah (turning towards it in mortal danger), 39
—— (anything opposite) applied to the Ka’abah, 196
Kiblatayn = the two Kiblahs (Meccah and Jerusalem), _ib._
Killed = Hibernicè “kilt”, 5
King (the, and the Virtuous Wife), 122
Kisrà = _the_ Chosroë (applied to Anushirwan), 87
Kiss (without moustachio = bread without salt), 165
Kit (of the traveller in the East), 174
Kiyák (fourth Coptic month), 231
Kneeling (in prayer exclusively Christian), 196
Kohl-needle in the Kohl-case = res in re, 97
Korah (Kárún), 225
Koran quoted (xxvi. 5, 6), 78
—— (xxxiii. 48), 101
—— (xxxviii. 2), 102
—— (vii. 195), 143
—— quoted (x. 36), 145
—— (iv. 38, 175; ii. 282), 155
—— (xii. 51), 159
—— (xxvi. 165), 161
—— (xxi. 36), 166
—— (vii. 148), 191
—— (iv. 160), 194
—— (viii. 66), 203
—— (xxxix. 67; lxxviii. 19), 207
—— (vii. 63, 71, 83), 210
—— (chapt. of The Cow), 211
—— (xvi. 92; xxxix. 54; lxx. 38), _ib._
—— (ii. 28, 107; xii. 18; xvi. 100; li. 57), 212
—— (ix.; xxvii. 30; xcvi. 1, 2), 213
—— (ii. 158; xvii. 110), 214
—— (v. 4; xxx.; lxxiv. 1; xcvi.; cx. 1), 215
—— (iv. 124; v. 89, 116), 216
—— (vii. 154; xi. 50), 217
—— (xvii. 39), 221
—— (ii. 216; v. 92), 223
—— (x. 5; xxii. 60; xxxvi. 40; lxx. 40), 228
—— (xxxi. 34), 231
—— (xxxvii. 5), 233
—— (xxxvi. 37, 38), 234
—— (xx. 57; xxii. 7), 235
—— (lxxxi. 18), 236
—— (iii.; vii. 110), 238
—— (xii. 10), 239
—— (xxxvi. 82), 240
—— (vi. 44), 250
—— (vii. 52), 269
—— (xxxvi. 82), 286
—— (v. 108), 287
—— (xiii. 41), 290
—— (xxxviii. 34), 310
—— (vii.), 320
—— (xxvii.), 337
—— (xxvii. 16), 355
—— (liii. 14), 393
—— (abrogating and abrogated passages), 194
—— (most excellent chapter of), 211
—— (eminent and curious verses of), _ib._
Kubbat (Al-) = alcove, 18
Kurrat al-Ayn (Pr. N. = coolness of the eye), 145
Kutb = axle, pole; hence prince, doyen in sainthood, 384
La’al = ruby, 342
La’an = curse, 250
Labbay’ka = here I am (pronounced on sighting Meccah), 203
Lactation (term of), 299
—— (no cohabitation during), _ib._
Lámi (Al-) = the l-shaped, forked (os hyoïdes), 219
Lane quoted, 32; 33; 37; 44; 45; 64; 104; 112; 120; 121; 145; 189; 201; 286; 298
Lauh = tablet used as slate, 73
—— al-Mahfúz = the Preserved Tablet (of Allah’s decrees), 322
Lau lá-ka = but for thee, for thy sake, 306
Leprosy (white = bahak or baras, black = juzám), 294
Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, 45
Lion (beguiled by flattery), 40
Liver and spleen (held to be congealed blood), 220
Lord for Lady = she, 60
—— (of the East and West), 228
Lote-tree (beyond which there is no passing), 393
Lots = games of chance, 223
Love (strange chances of), 71
—— (deaths from), 134
—— (made public, disgraces), 151
Lovers (buried together), 71
—— (model ones, becoming an ordinary married couple), 92
Lúti (of the people of Lot = Sodomite), 161
Lynch-law (the modern form of Jus talionis), 103
Ma’abid (singer and composer), 147
Mafa’úl = patient, passive (Catamite), 156
Magic Horse (history of the fable), 2
Majzúb = drawn, attracted (Sufi term for an ecstatic), 57
Málik (traditionist), 81
—— al-Khuzá’i (intendant of the palace), 95
Málik bin Dínár (theologian), 261
Malikhulíya (Al-) = melancholy, 221
Man (advantages of, above woman), 155
—— (one’s evidence = two women’s), _ib._
—— (one’s portion = two women’s), _ib._
—— (created of congealed blood), 213
Manáf (idol), 129
Manázil (Stations of the Moon), 228
Marwah (ground-wave in Meccah), 203
Matáf = place of the Tawáf, _q.v._, 203
Matting (of Sind famous), 146
Maysar = game of arrows, 223
Medicine (rules and verses bearing on domestic), 222
Metempsychosis and sharpers’ tricks, 84
Mihrgán = Sun-fête, degraded into Michaelmas, 1
Mikmarah (Makmarah) = cover for a brasier, extinguisher, 120
Milk (soured), 225
Míms (verset of the sixteen), 217
Mina (and the stoning of the Devil), 203
Miracle (minor, known to Spiritualism), 144
Mirza Abdullah-i-Hichmakáni = Master Abdullah of Nowhere, 27
Misra (twelfth Coptic month), 232
Modesty (behind a curtain), 162
Mohammed (mentioned in the Koran), 210
—— al-Amín (Caliph), 93
Monasteries (best wine made in), 65
—— (Arab. Biká’a), 125
—— (places of confinement for madmen), 139
Months (of peace), 54
—— (Coptic names of), 221; 232
—— (Arabic names explained), 233
Moon (simile for female beauty), 8
—— (shall be cloven in twain), 217
—— (its stations), 28
Mosul (exempted from idolatrous worship), 64
Moustachio (salt to a kiss), 165
Muffawak = well-notched (arrow), 33
Muharramát = unlawful things, 148
Mukarrabín = those near Allah, 319
Mujáwirin = lower servants, sweepers, etc., 19
Mukrí = Koranist, 216
Mulákát = going to meet an approaching guest, 330
Munáfik = hypocrite, 207
Munkar and Nakír (the questioning Angels), 111
Murder (to be punished by the family), 103
Mus’ab bin al-Zubayr, 79
Musallá = place of prayer, oratory, 261
Musk (sherbet flavoured with), 66
Muslim bin al-Walíd (poet), 128
Mutalammis (Al-), the poet and his fatal letter, 74
Mutawakkil (Al-), ala ‘llah (Caliph), 153
Mutawwif = leader in the Tawáf, _q.v._, 203
Muunis (Pr. N. = Companion), 164
Nafahát = breathings, benefits, 29
Náf’i (traditionist), 204
Nága-kings (of Hinduism), 302
Najíb (al-taraf = son of a common Moslemah by a Sayyid, _q.v._), 259
—— (al-tarafayn = whose parents are both of Apostolic blood), _ib._
Names (of God), 214
—— (= magical formulæ), 369
Nation (its power consists in its numbers of fighting men), 255
Nay = reed-pipe, 50
Názih = travelled far and wide, 52
Night (its promise spread with butter that melteth with day-rise), 77
Nímchahrah = half-face (Pers. a kind of demon), 333
Niyat = intention, purpose of prayer, 163
Noachian dispensation (revived al-Islám), 372
Nún (simile for the eyebrow), 34
Nu’uman (Al-) bin Munzir (tyrant of Hírah), 74
Obayd’ Allah (Pr. N.), 164
Ocean (Jamm), 93
—— (of darkness), 309
Old age (graphically described), 3
Old woman (polite equivalents for), 163
Olemá (pl. of Álim) = the learned in the law, 183
Omar (Caliph) entitled al-Ádil, the Just, 103
Omen (Fál), 136
Othmán bin Affán (Kátib al-Koran), 215
Palsy (creeps over him), 251
Paper (his = the whiteness of his skin), 161
Parapets (on terrace-roofs made obligatory by Moses), 72
Parasite (Tufayli), 130
Payne quoted, 44; 49; 65; 112; 161; 192; 204; 346
Pearls shaded by hair = teeth under moustachio, 157
Persian (“I am a, but not lying now”), 26
—— (poets mostly addressing youths), 156
Physiologists (practise on the simiads), 220
Physis and Antiphysis, 320
Picnics (on the Rauzah island), 169
Pilgrimage quoted (i. 22), 39
—— (ii. 287), 44
—— (iii. 218), 49
—— (i. 16), 97
—— (ii. 344), 100
—— (i. 10), 112
—— (ii. 161), 119
—— (i. 352), 158
—— (ii. 320), 196
—— (i. 110), 201
—— (iii. 193, 205, 226, 282), 203
—— (iii. 248), 212
—— (iii. 92), 220
—— (ii. 322), 224
—— (i. 362), 225
—— (ii. 288), 236
Plaisirs de la petite oie (practised by eunuchs), 46
Pleasure prolonged (en pensant à sa pauvre mère, etc.), 76
Polo (“Goff”), 32
Poverty (Holy), 269
Prayer (without intention, Arab. Niyat is valueless), 163
—— (offered standing or prostrating), 196
—— (of a sick person said as he best can), 200
—— (intonations of the voice in), _ib._
—— (call to, Azán), 201
—— (is a collector of all folk), _ib._
Preachments (to Eastern despots), 254
Prolongatio veneris (Imsák), 76
Prophets (named in the Korán), 210
Providence (and Justice), 286
Purgation (Easterns most careful during), 154
Pyramids (Al-Ahrám), 105
—— (containing unopened chambers?), 106
Pyramidennarren, _ib._
Quibbling away a truly diplomatic art, 86
Rajab = worshipping (7th Arab month), 54
Rákí (distilled from raisins), 65
Ras al-Tín = Headland of Clay (not Figs), 112
Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, 149
Rauzah (Al-), at Cairo, 169
Ream (Ital. risma, Arab. riyam), 108
Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), 236
Reed-pipe (Nay), 50
Repetition (of an address in token of kindness), 370
Ribá = usury, 201
Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), 239
Riyam = bales (ream), 108
Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arab prayerfulness), 291
Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry” even in tea), 357
Ruby (La’al, Yákút), 342
Rukh (Roc) and “Roc’s” feathers, 122
Sabbath (kept in silence), 339
Sabbation (River), 337
Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), 34
Safá (ground-wave _in_ Meccah), 203
Sáhib (Wazirial title), 71
Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), 81
Sa’íd bin Sálim (governor of Khorasan), 94
Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, 112
Saint, Santon (Wali), _ib._
Saint and Sinner, 115
Saj’a = balanced prose (instance), 160
Sajáh (false prophetess), 147
Sakhr (Jinni imprisoned by Solomon), 316
Sakká = water-carrier, 89
Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), 90
Sálih (grandson of Shem?), 210
Sálih (his she-camel), 235
Sálíh al-Muzani (theologian), 261
Salli ala ‘l-Nabi = bless the prophet (imposing silence), 65
Salutation (the first), 200
—— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), 284
Sana’á (Capital of Al-Yaman), 16
Sandal (scented with), 192
Sandali (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), 46
Sar’a = falling sickness, 28
Sardáb = underground chamber, 128
Sarídah (Tharídah) brewis, 223
Sawálif = tresses, locks, 158
Sayhún and Jayhún = Jaxartes and Oxus, 41
Sayyid (descendant from Mohammed through Al-Hasan), 259
Scabbard (Ar. Ghimd), 158
Schoolmaster (derided in East and West), 118
Seal (affixed to make an act binding), 184
—— (breaking the = taking the maidenhead), 154
Seas (fresh = lakes and rivers), 326
Secrets (instances and sayings with regard to their keeping), 83
Seeking refuge with Allah, 200
Sha’abán (moon of), 191
Sháh-púr = King’s son (Sábúr, Σαβὼρ, Sapor), 2
Shakuríyah = chicorée, 226
Shams al-Nahár (Pr. N. = Sun of the Day), 9
Shaybán (Arab tribe), 100
Shaykh Nasr (Pr. N. = Elder of victory), 343
Shikk = split man (a kind of demon), 333
Shinf = gunny-bag, 45
Shirk (= syntheism) of love, 9
—— of the Mushrik, 142
Shroud (joined in one = shrouded together?), 71
Shu’ayb = Jethro, 210
Sídí (from Sayyidi = my lord), 283
Sídi Ibrahím bin al-Khawwás (Pr. N.), 283
Sifr = whistling, 333
Sinai (convent famous for Rákí), 65
Sind (matting of), 145
Sitt al-Mashá’ikh = Lady of Shaykhs, 154
Slain were those who were slain = many were slain, 364
Slate (Lauh), 73
Slaughtering (ritual for), 391
Slaves (their ambition to have slaves of their own), 12
Sleeping (naked), 8
—— (with head and body covered by a sheet), 18
Smile (and laughter), 193
Sodomite (Lúti), 161
—— (punished detected), 160
Solomon and David (their burial-place), 310
Sortes Virgilianæ, 44
Soul (Thou knowest what is in mine and I know not what is in Thine), 216
—— (doctrine of the three), 218
Squeeze of the tomb (Fishár), 111
Stations of the Moon (Manázil), 228
Stones (precious), 342
Stoning (of the devil at Mina), 203
Strangers (treated with kindly care), 171
“Strangers yet” (Lord Houghton quoted), 284
Sufis (stages of their Journey), 264
—— (address Allah as a lover would his beloved), 263; 298
Sufrah (provision-bag and table-cloth), 8
Sufyán (traditionist), 81
Sukát (pl. of Sáki = cupbearer), 66
Sukita fí aydíhim = it repented them, 191
Suláfat = must, new wine, 158
Sultán (anachronistic use of the title), 88; 179
Sun and Moon (Luminaries for day and night), 228
—— (do not outstrip each other), _ib._
Sundus = brocade, 57
Sunnat = practice of the Prophet, etc., 36; 167
Susannah and the Elders in Moslem form, 97
Swan-maidens, 346
Tablet (Lauh), 37
—— (the preserved), 322
Takht = throne, capital, 334
Takht-rawán = moving throne (mule-litter), 175
Ta’mím = crowning with turband or tiara; covering, wetting, 199
Taráib = breast-bone, 132
Taríkat = (mystic) path to knowledge, 111
Tasním (fountain in Paradise), 264
Tawáf = Ka’abah-circuiting, 203
Tawakkul ala ‘llah = trust in Allah, 208
Tayammum = washing with sand, 197
Teeth (their cleansing enjoined by Mohammed), 44
“Thank you” (Moslem equivalent for), 171
“They” for “She”, 41; 140
Throne-verse, 211
Thursday night (in Moslem parlance = Friday night), 324
Tín = clay puddled with chaff, 112
Tongue (made to utter (?) what is in the heart of man), 218
Tooth-pick (Khilál), 44
Torrens quoted, 96; 188
Tree of Paradise (Túbá), 237
Tricks (two = before and behind), 161
Truth (most worthy to be followed), 145
—— (is become manifest), 159
Tuba (tree of Paradise), 237
Tubah (fifth Coptic month), 231
Tufayli = parasite, 130
Tughrá = imperial cypher, 184
Turbands (worn large by the learned), 120
Turks (fair boy-slaves, abounding in Baghdad), 66
Ukhnúkh = Enoch (Idrís?), 210
Umm Amrí (mother of Amr’) and the ass, 118
‘Umrah = lesser Pilgrimage, 205
Uns al Wujúd (Pr. N. = Delight of existing things), 33
Urwah = handle, button-hole, 227
Usury (Ribá), 201
—— (verset of), 215
Usús = os sacrum, 219
‘Utbi (Al-), poet, 133
Versets (number of the Koranic), 110
Virgil (a magician), 44
Visits in dreamland, 47
Viswakarmá = anti-creator, 320
Wády al-Naml = Valley of the Emmets, 337
Wády Zahrán = Valley Flowery, 360
Walad = son (more ceremonious than “ibn”), 386
Wali = saint, Santon, 112
Wá Rahmatá-hu = Alas, the pity of it, 42
Ward (Al-) fí’l-Akmám (Pr. N. = Rose in Hood), 32
Water (had no taste in his mouth), 39
—— (carrier, Sakká), 89
Watwát = Bat, 226
Wayha = Alas!, 258
Where is—and where? = what a difference is there between, etc., 65
Whistling, (held to be the devil’s speech), 333
Wine (its prohibition not held absolute), 224
Wird = the twenty-five last chapters of the Koran, 185
Witnesses (one man = two women), 155
Women (sleep naked in hot weather), 8
—— (making the first advances), 34
—— (and secrets), 35; 83
—— (wives of eunuchs), 46
—— (visiting their lovers in a dream), 47
—— (thought to be Jinn or Ghúl), 51
—— (called Zaurá, the crooked), 66
—— (allowed to absent themselves from the house of father or husband), 96
Women (instructed in “motitations”), 80
—— (apt for two tricks), 161
—— (old, polite equivalents for), 163
—— (in their prime at fourteen to fifteen), 192
—— (inferior to man), 155
—— (unveiling to a man, if not slaves, insult him), 194
Wuzú (Koranic order for), 198
—— (angels and devils at the side of a man who prepares for it), _ib._
Yá ‘Ajúz = O old woman (now insulting), 163
Yájúj and Májúj, 318
Yá Kawwád = O pímp, 129
Yá Kisrawí = O subject of the Kisrá, 26
Yákút = Ruby, garnet, etc., 342
Yá Sáki’ al-Dakan = O frosty-beard, 99
Yohanná (Greek Physician), 154
Zabiyah (Pr. N. = roe, doe), 147
Zaghab = the chick’s down, 165
Zambúr = clitoris (the shutter), 279
Zarr wa ‘urwah = button and button-hole, 227
Zaurá = the crooked, for woman, 66
Zidd = opposite, contrary, 206
Zind and Zindah = fire-sticks, 52
Zindík = Agnostic, atheist, 230
Zuhri (Al-), traditionist, 81
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Added missing footnote numbers on pp. 5, 111, and 135. 2. Changed ‘in goal’ to ‘in gaol’ on p. 28. 3. Added missing footnote anchors on pp. 37, 105, 197, 298, and 392. 4. Changed ‘commun is’ to ‘commun in’ on p. 49. 5. Added ‘to’ between ‘Speak’ and ‘him’ on p. 124. 6. Changed ‘knew were’ to ‘knew where’ on p. 133. 7. Removed ‘a’ from ‘friends a’ on p. 339. 8. Changed ‘streams ann’ to ‘streams and’ on p. 353. 9. Changed ‘perceived he’ to ‘perceived the’ on p. 353. 10. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors. 11. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 12. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.