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236 The Arabic names of these flowers are, yásemeen, nisreen, zahr (or zahr nárinj), soosan, reeḥán (or ḥabaḳ), nemám, bahár, uḳ-howán, neelófar, beshneen, jullanár or julnár, khashkhásh, khiṭmee, zaạfarán, 'oṣfur, kettán, báḳillà and lebláb, and lóz.

237 "Bán," and "khiláf" or "khaláf." Both these names are applied to the same tree (which, according to Forskal, differs slightly from the salix Ægyptiaca of Linnæus) by the author of the Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, and by the modern Egyptians.

238 Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, ch. xiv.

239 Idem, ch. xi.

240 Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 425.

241 Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, ch. xiv.

242 Soft boots, worn inside the slippers or shoes.

243 This is so vaguely described by the Arab lexicographers that I cannot obtain a definite notion of its form.

244 Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, loco laudato.

245 Halbet el-Kumeyt, ch. xiv.

246 He was born in the year of the Flight 125, and died in 213, or, according to some, 188.—Abulfedæ Annales, vol. ii. pp. 150 and 675.

247 He was born in the year of the Flight 150, and died in 235.—Idem, adnot., pp. 691 et seq.; and Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 235.

248 Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 231. He died in this year.

249 I believe this Khaleefeh was El-Ma-moon.

250 A quarter in Baghdád.

251 That is, "My master."—Ed.

252 Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, ch. vii.

253 Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil.

254 El-Maḳreezee, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 265, 2nd ed.

255 Ibid.

256 El-Maḳreezee, in his "Khiṭaṭ," and his history of the Memlook Sulṭáns, translated by Quatremère; El-Is-ḥáḳee; and D'Ohsson, Tableau Général de l'Empire Othoman.

257 D'Ohsson (vol. i. pp. 315 and 316) asserts the Ḳuṭb to be the chief minister of the Ghós; and gives an account somewhat different from that which I offer of the orders under his authority: but perhaps the Turkish Darweeshes differ from the Arab in their tenets on this subject.

258 It is said that "the Nuḳabà are three hundred; the Nujabà, seventy; the Abdál, forty; the Akhyár, seven; the 'Omud, four; the Ghós [as before mentioned,] is one. The Nuḳabà reside in El-Gharb [Northern Africa to the west of Egypt]; the Nujabà, in Egypt; the Abdál, in Syria; the Akhyár travel about the earth; the 'Omud, in the corners of the earth; the abode of the Ghós is at Mekkeh. In an affair of need, the Nuḳabà implore relief for the people; then, the Nujabà; then, the Abdál; then, the Akhyár; then, the 'Omud; and if their prayer be not answered, the Ghós implores, and his prayer is answered." (El-Is-ḥáḳee's History, preface.)—This statement, I find, rests on the authority of a famous saint of Baghdád, Aboo-Bekr El-Kettánee, who died at Mekkeh, in the year of the Flight 322. (Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year above mentioned.)

259 El-Jabartee's History of Modern Egypt, vol. ii., obituary of the year 1201 (MS. in my possession).—The appellation of "the four Ḳuṭbs" is given in Egypt to the seyyid Aḥmad Rifá'ah, the seyyid 'Abd-El-Ḳádir El-Geelánee, the seyyid Aḥmad El-Bedawee, and the seyyid Ibráheem Ed-Dasooḳee, the founders of the four orders of darweeshes most celebrated among the Arabs, called Rifá'eeyeh, Ḳádireeyeh, Aḥmedeeyeh, and Baráhimeh.

260 El-Jabartee's History, vol. i., obituary of the year 1188.

261 Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 291.

262 Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 291.

263 Idem, events of the year 218.

264 Idem, events of the year 334.

265 Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 4.

266 These are two very celebrated welees.

267 The opening chapter of the Ḳur-án.

268 El-Jabartee's History, vol. iii., events of the month of Shaạbán, 1215 (A.D. 1800-1801).

269 Singers of religious odes.

270 El-Jabartee's History, vol. ii., obituary of the year 1207, and events of Rejeb, 1200; and vol. iii., events of Rabeeạ eth-Thánee, 1214.

271 El-Is-ḥáḳee, reign of El-Mutawekkil.

272 De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. pp. 122, 123, 2nd. ed.

273 "'Ajáïb el-Makhlooḳát."

274 Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year above mentioned.

275 Sketches of Persia, vol. ii. p. 129.