[273]. Ibid. chapt. xxiv. In vol. ii. [29] of The Nights, I find signs of Ja’afar’s suspected heresy. For Al-Rashid’s hatred of the Zindiks see Al-Siyuti, pp. 292, 301; and as regards the religious troubles ibid. p. 362 and passim.
[274]. Biogr. Dict. i. 309.
[275]. This accomplished princess had a practice that suggests the Dame aux Camélias.
[276]. i.e. Perdition to your fathers, Allah’s curse on your ancestors.
[277]. See vol. iv. [159], “Ja’afar and the Beanseller;” where the great Wazir is said to have been “crucified;” and vol. iv. pp. [179], [181]. Also Roebuck’s Persian Proverbs, i. 2, 346, “This also is through the munificence of the Barmecides.”
[278]. I especially allude to my friend Mr. Payne’s admirably written account of it in his concluding Essay (vol. ix.). From his views of the Great Caliph and the Lady Zubaydah I must differ in every point except the destruction of the Barmecides.
[279]. Bresl. Edit., vol. vii. 261–62.
[280]. Mr. Grattan Geary, in a work previously noticed, informs us (i. 212) “The Sitt al-Zobeide, or the Lady Zobeide, was so named from the great Zobeide tribe of Arabs occupying the country East and West of the Euphrates near the Hindi’ah Canal; she was the daughter of a powerful Sheik of that tribe.” Can this explain the “Kásim?”
[282]. Burckhardt, “Travels in Arabia,” vol. i. 185.