[25] Koran, iii. 128.
[26] The celebrated Caliph of Bagdad, and hero of so many of the stories in the “Thousand and One Nights.”
[27] Koran, iii. 128.
[28] D’Herbelot relates the same story in his “Bibliothèque Orientale,” but substitutes Hasan son of ‘Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law, for Harun-er-Reshid.
[29] Bāyezīd of Bestam was a famous saint who, according to Ibn-Khallikān, died in 261 or 264 (A.D. 875 or 878).
[30] One of the most famous kings of pre-Islamitic Persia, he reigned from A.D. 531 to 579.
[31] The Cubical (House), i.e., the Sacred Temple at Mecca.
[32] One of the ceremonies performed by the pilgrims at Mecca.
[33] For a description of it see Captain Burton’s “Pilgrimage,” vol. iii, p. 164.
[34] Such as is required by the Mahometan law in case of a triple divorce.