[FN#33] Arab. "Al-Sбhil" i.e. the seaboard of Syria; properly
Phњnicia or the coast-lands of Southern Palestine. So the
maritime lowlands of continental Zanzibar are called in the plur.
Sawбhil = "the shores" and the people Sawбhнlн = Shore-men.
[FN#34] Arab. "Al-Khizбnah" both in Mac. Edit. and Breslau x. 426. Mr. Payne has translated "tents" and says, "Saladin seems to have been encamped without Damascus and the slave-merchant had apparently come out and pitched his tent near the camp for the purposes of his trade." But I can find no notice of tents till a few lines below.
[FN#35] Bahб al-Dнn ibn Shaddбd, then Kбzi al-Askar (of the Army) or Judge-Advocate-General under Saladin.
[FN#36] i.e. "abide with" thy second husband, the Egyptian.
[FN#37] A descendant of Hбshim, the Apostle's great-grandfather from whom the Abbasides were directly descended. The Ommiades were less directly akin to Mohammed, being the descendants of Hashim's brother, Abd al-Shams. The Hashimis were famed for liberality; and the quality seems to have been inherited. The first Hбshim got his name from crumbling bread into the Sarнd or brewis of the Meccan pilgrims during "The Ignorance." He was buried at Ghazzah (Gaza) but his tomb was soon forgotten.
[FN#38] i.e. thy lover.
[FN#39] i.e. of those destined to hell; the especial home of
Moslem suicides.
[FN#40] Arab. "Ummбl" (plur. of 'Бmil) viceroys or governors of provinces.
[FN#41] A town of Irбk 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."