INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Coloquintida (Hanzal), 19
Commune (Jamá’at), 205
Covered (the, chapter of the Koran), 215
Cow (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