111 ([return])
[ i.e. she who ensnares [all] eyes.]
112 ([return])
[ Imam, the spiritual title of the Caliph, as head of the Faith and leader (lit. "foreman," Antistes) of the people at prayer. See vol. iv. 111.]
113 ([return])
[ For Yamámah see vol. ii. 104. Omar bin Abd-al-Aziz was governor of the province before he came to the Caliphate. To the note on Zarká, the blue-eyed Yamamite, I may add that Marwan was called Ibn Zarká, son of "la femme au drapeau bleu," such being the sign of a public prostitute. Al-Mas'udi, v. 509.]
114 ([return])
[ Rain and bounty, I have said, are synonymous.]
115 ([return])
[ About £2 10s.]