552 ([return])
[ Arab. "Khutbah," the sermon preached from the pulpit (Mimbar) after the congregational prayers on Friday noon. It is of two kinds, for which see Lane, M.E., chap. iii. This public mention of his name and inscribing it upon the newly-minted money are the special prerogatives of the Moslem king: hence it often happens that usurpers cause a confusion of Khutbah and coinage.]
553 ([return])
[ For a specimen of which, blowing a man up with bellows, see Al-Mas'udi, chap. cxxiii.]
554 ([return])
[ i.e. a long time: the idiom has been noted before more than once.]
555 ([return])
[ i.e. with what he had heard and what he was promised.]
556 ([return])
[ Arab. "Shakhs mafsúd," i.e. an infidel.]