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[ "Of the Shayban tribe." I have noticed (vol. ii. 1) how loosely the title Malik (King) is applied in Arabic and in mediæval Europe. But it is ultra-Shakespearean to place a Badawi King in Baghdad, the capital founded by the Abbasides and ruled by those Caliphs till their downfall.]
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[ i.e. Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and 'Ajami (Western Persia). For the meaning of Al-Irák, which always, except in verse, takes the article, see vol. ii. 132.]
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[ See supra, p. 185. Mr. Payne suspects a clerical error for "Turkumániyah" = Turcomanish; but this is hardly acceptable.]
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[ As fabulous a personage as "King Kays.">[
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[ Possibly a clerical error for Zabíd, the famous capital of the Tahámah or lowlands of Al-Yaman.]