The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. / Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

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[141] Genesis ix. 5.

[142] Lettres sur l'Histoire des Arabes avant l'Islamisme, par Fulgence Fresnel. Paris, 1836, pp. 31, et seqq.

[143] El-Is-háḳee.

[144] El-Is-ḥáḳee.

[145] Idem.

[146] Fakhr-ed-Deen, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 3 of the Arabic Text: 2nd edition.

[147] Ibn-Khaldoon, ubi supra, vol. i. p. 124 of the Arabic text.

[148] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt (MS. in my possession), chap. vii.

[149] The maṣṭabah, with the picturesque Arab architecture of which it forms a part, is fast disappearing from Egypt. In Cairo and Alexandria, Moḥammad 'Alee ordered that the maṣṭabahs in the thoroughfare-streets should be removed, or reduced to about a foot in width; and interdicted the erection of new meshrebeeyehs (projecting windows of lattice-work), although he allowed the old ones to remain.—Ed.

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