Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights

by Edward William Lane

[44] So I translate the word "khaṭṭ;" but in Es-Suyooṭee's Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil, section 7, I find, in its place, the word "weshm," or "tattooing;" and there are some other slight variations and omissions in this tradition as there quoted.

[45] El-Ḳazweenee.

[46] Ḳur. lxxii. 6.

[47] Modern Egyptians, ch. x.

[48] Ibid. ch. xxiv.

[49] Ḳur. xxvii. 17; xxxviii. 35.

[50] Modern Egyptians, ch. x.

[51] Ibid.

[52] El-Ḳazweenee.

[53] El-Jáḥiz (´Amr Ibn-Baḥr).