[289] "God! there is no deity but He," &c., to the words, "He is the High, the Great."—Idem, ch. ii. v. 256.
[290] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 9.
[291] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 9.
[292] A similar custom is mentioned in a note appended to the account of circumcision in vol. i. ch. ii. of my work on the Modern Egyptians.
[293] Mir-át ez-Zemán, events of the year 302.
[294] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 9; and Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 86.
[295] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, ibid.
[296] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil, &c., sect. 6.
[297] See my work on the Modern Egyptians, vol. ii. ch. v.
[298] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 79.