INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, 149
Rauzah (Al-), at Cairo, 169
Ream (Ital. risma, Arab. riyam), 108
Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), 236
Reed-pipe (Nay), 50
Repetition (of an address in token of kindness), 370
Ribá = usury, 201
Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), 239
Riyam = bales (ream), 108
Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arab prayerfulness), 291
Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry” even in tea), 357
Ruby (La’al, Yákút), 342
Rukh (Roc) and “Roc’s” feathers, 122
Sabbath (kept in silence), 339
Sabbation (River), 337
Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), 34
Safá (ground-wave in Meccah), 203
Sáhib (Wazirial title), 71
Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), 81
Sa’íd bin Sálim (governor of Khorasan), 94
Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, 112
Saint, Santon (Wali), ib.
Saint and Sinner, 115
Saj’a = balanced prose (instance), 160
Sajáh (false prophetess), 147
Sakhr (Jinni imprisoned by Solomon), 316
Sakká = water-carrier, 89
Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), 90
Sálih (grandson of Shem?), 210
Sálih (his she-camel), 235
Sálíh al-Muzani (theologian), 261
Salli ala ‘l-Nabi = bless the prophet (imposing silence), 65
Salutation (the first), 200
—— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), 284
Sana’á (Capital of Al-Yaman), 16
Sandal (scented with), 192
Sandali (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), 46
Sar’a = falling sickness, 28
Sardáb = underground chamber, 128
Sarídah (Tharídah) brewis, 223