[29] That is, Jesus. It may be here observed that the proper names of the Old Testament are still used in the East. Ibrahim, Ismael, Yahya, Joossuf, Moossa, Daood, Suleiman, Issa, are Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, and Joshua, or Jesus.
[30] Ahmar, fem. Hamra, is red in Arabic; hence the celebrated Moorish palace at Granada was called Alhambra (Al-Hamra), i. e. the Red.
[31] Hence the Spanish Cid.
[32] Hammer, book ii.
[33] Wilken, Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, vol. ii.
[34] Marsden's Translation.
[35] Fundgruben des Orients, vol. iii.
[36] The Arabic name of the hyoscyamus, or henbane. Hammer conjectures that the word benge, or, with the Coptic article in the plural, ni-benje, is the same with the nepenthe of the ancients.—Fundgruben des Orients, iii. 202.
[37] Fundgruben des Orients, vol. iv.
[38] History of Persia, vol. i.