[293] See further Modern Egyptians, ch. xxviii.
[294] See above, 23 and 24.
[295] Preliminary Discourse, section iv.
[296] So in the Ḳámoos, and in my MS. of the ´Ajáïb el-Makhlooḳát of El-Ḳazweenee; but by Sale written "Borhût."
[297] The Mohammadan law distinguishes several different descriptions of martyrs. This honourable title is given to the soldier who dies in fighting for the faith, or on his way to do so, or who dies almost immediately after his having been wounded when so engaged; to a person who innocently meets with his death from the hand of another; to a victim of the plague, who does not flee from the disease, or of dysentery; to a person who is drowned, and to one who is killed by the falling of a wall or any building.
[298] Murshid ez-Zoowár ilà Ḳuboor, el-Abrár (the Director of the Visitors to the Tombs of the Just) by ´Abd-er-Raḥmán El-Khazrejee El-Anṣáree: MS. in my possession.
[299] ´Ajáïb el-Makhlooḳát.