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Sacey de (Baron Silvestre), 26, 89, 108
Sad bin Malik, the general, 4
Sa'di's 'Gulistan,' 188
Sayuti (Jalal-uddin), the Egyptian author, 111
Scott (Jonathan), a translator, 155, 177, 178
Sehl bin Nubakht, 90
Seville, 9
Shafai (Al), the imam, 37
Shaibani (Abu Amr as), the grammarian, philologist, writer on natural history and editor of poems, 49, 60, 76
Shiahs, Description of the, 5
Sibawaih, the grammarian, 46, 47
'Sihr-ul-oyoon,' a book on the eye, 210
extracts from it, 210-212
'Siraj-ul Muluk,' an interesting work, 212;
extracts from it, 212-216
Society of the Brethren of Purity, 105
Sofyan at Thauri, an imaam, 38
Somadeva, '(Bhatta); an Indian author, 182, 183
Soudanese, The, 148
Spain, Omaiyide rulers in, 21; other rulers, 8; the Almoravides, 9; the Almohades, 9
Spanish Omaiyide Khalifs, 8, 21; the two greatest, Abd-ar-Rahman III and Hakim II., 102
Sprengor (Dr. A.), a translator, 54
Stories from Ibn Khallikan, 217-228
Stories from the 'Arabian Nights.' 157-174
Stories from the 'Merzuban-namah.' 193-201
Stories from the 'Mustatraf.' 202-209
Stories from the 'Naphut-ul-Yaman.' 188-192
Stories from the 'Sihr-ul-oyoon.' 210-212
Stories from the 'Siraj-ul-Muluk.' 212-216
Stories from various sources, 228-233
Sulaiman, the lawgiver, 112-116
Sunnis, Description of the, 5
Syria and Palestine, 14; conquest of, by the Fatimites, 14; by the Seljuks, 14; by Saladin, 15; by Selim I., 15