[150] Sale's Korán, note to chap. xxxviii.
[151] El-Maḳreezee's "Khiṭaṭ;" chapter entitled "Khizánet el-Kisawát."
[152] Fakhr-ed-Deen, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. i. p. 32 of the Arabic text, 2nd ed.
[153] Idem, p. 4 of the Arabic text.
[154] D'Herbelot, art. "Bokhteri."
[155] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, chapter the seventh (MS. in my possession).
[156] Ḥalbet el-Kumeyt, chapter the eighth.
[157] Idem, chapter the seventh.
[158] A recent traveller has questioned Mr. Lane's authority, in the "Modern Egyptians," for the remark that Muslims should not pray in the bath. A reference to any well-known collection of traditions of the Prophet will, however, prove, by many sayings besides that quoted above, that Mr. Lane is in this matter strictly accurate—Ed.