INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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