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

by Edward William Lane

[137] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, chap. vii.

[138] Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of 305.

[139] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, chap. viii.

[140] The art here mentioned was first made known to Europeans by a Frenchman, M. Du Vigneau, in a work entitled "Secrétaire Turc, contenant l'Art d'exprimer ses pensées sans se voir, sans se parler, et sans s'écrire:" Paris, 1688: in-12. Von Hammer has also given an interesting paper on this subject in the "Mines de l'Orient," No. 1: Vienna, 1809. (Note to Marcel's "Contes du Cheykh El-Mohdy," iii. 327, 328: Paris, 1833.)

[141] Called "ghásool el-azrár." In Delile's Flora Ægyptiaca, the name of ghásool is given to the mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, class icosandria, order pentagynia.

[142] This name is now given to sherbet.

[143] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, chap. x.

[144] Ḳur. xxviii. 19.

[145] Ḳur. v. 27.

[146] Ḳur. xxvii. 16.