FOOTNOTES:
[80] Ḳur. xxvii. 40; and Commentary of the Jeláleyn.
[81] Ḳur. ii. 96.
[82] El-Ḳazweenee, account of the well of Bábil, in his ´Ajaïb el-Makhlooḳát.
[83] See Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 374.
[84] "Talisman," is a corruption of the Arabic word "ṭalsam." I write this latter word in accordance with the manner in which it is generally pronounced by the Arabs, and the manner in which my sheykh has written it; by some it is written "ṭilsem," and "ṭilism." It is a term applied to mystical characters; and also to seals, images, etc., upon which such characters are engraved or inscribed. These characters are astrological, or of some other magical kind. The purposes for which ṭalsams are contrived are various; one has the property of preserving from enchantment, or from a particular accident, or a variety of evils; another protects a treasure with which it is deposited; a third, by being rubbed, procures the presence and services of a Jinnee.
[85] See Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 384 ff.; and above, [33] and [38].
[86] Account of the early Arabs, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[87] Some curious performances of this kind, by means of a fluid mirror of ink, have been described in my "Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians," ch. xii., and in No. 117 of the Quarterly Review.
[88] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 385.
[89] Or Ḍarb er-Ramal, also called ´Ilm er-Raml. There are several treatises on Geomancy by Eastern writers: but I have not met with any of these; nor have I seen a geomantic tablet. I have only seen the mode of performing geomantic experiments upon paper. The invention of the science is ascribed by some to Idrees (Enoch), by some to Daniel, by some to Ham the son of Noah, and by others to Hermes Trismegistus.
[90] Mir-át ez-Zemán, 1. 1.
[91] El-Isḥáḳee, in his account of the reign of El-Moạtaṣim, the son of Hároon.
[92] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ii. 388.
[93] El-Isḥáḳee, close of his account of the reign of El-Emeen.
[94] I write in 1837.
[95] El-Jabartee's History, account of the death of Yoosuf Bey in the year of the Flight 1191; and account of the death of the Sheykh Ḥasan El-Kafráwee in the year 1202.