NOTES TO CHAPTER FIRST.
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140 Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 424.
141 Genesis ix. 5.
142 Lettres sur l'Histoire des Arabes avant l'Islamisme, par Fulgence Fresnel. Paris, 1836, pp. 31, et seqq.
143 El-Is-háḳee.
144 El-Is-ḥáḳee.
145 Idem.
146 Fakhr-ed-Deen, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 3 of the Arabic Text: 2nd edition.
147 Ibn-Khaldoon, ubi supra, vol. i. p. 124 of the Arabic text.
148 Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt (MS. in my possession), chap. vii.
149 The maṣṭabah, with the picturesque Arab architecture of which it forms a part, is fast disappearing from Egypt. In Cairo and Alexandria, Moḥammad 'Alee ordered that the maṣṭabahs in the thoroughfare-streets should be removed, or reduced to about a foot in width; and interdicted the erection of new meshrebeeyehs (projecting windows of lattice-work), although he allowed the old ones to remain.—Ed.