[121] These degrees of relationship will be explained when I describe the customs relating to marriage.

[122] Nuzhet el-Mutaämmil wa-Murshid el-Mutaähhil, section 9.

[123] Mishkát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. pp. 140 and 141.

[124] Nuzhet El-Mutaämmil, &c., loco laudato.

[125] See "Modern Egyptians," vol. i. ch. vii.

[126] Events of the year 227.

[127] Ḳur-án, ch. xxvii. v. 40; and Commentary of the Jeláleyn.

[128] See "Mishḳát el-Maṣábeeḥ," vol. ii. p. 374.

[129] Idem, vol ii. pp. 384, et seqq.

[130] Account of the early Arabs, in the "Mir-át ez-Zemán."