[40]. Arab. “’Ummál” (plur. of ’Ámil) viceroys or governors of provinces.
[41]. A town of Irák Arabi (Mesopotamia) between Baghdad and Bassorah built upon the Tigris and founded by Al-Hajjaj: it is so called because the “Middle” or half-way town between Basrah and Kufah. To this place were applied the famous lines:—
“In good sooth a right noble race are they;
Whose men “yea” can’t say nor their women “nay.”
[42]. i.e. robed as thou art.
[43]. i.e. his kinsfolk of the Hashimis.
[45]. Arab. “Sur’itu” = I was possessed of a Jinn, the common Eastern explanation of an epileptic fit long before the days of the Evangel. See vol. iv. [89].
[46]. Arab. “Zí’ah,” village, feoff or farm.
[47]. Arab. “Taríkah.”