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