This is called in Egypt "Aslah" (Lane M. E. chapt. i.).
It would be a broad ribbon-like band upon which the letters could be worked.
In the Arab. "_he_ cried." These "Yes, Yes! and No! No!" trifles are very common amongst the Arabs.
Arab. "Maragha" lit. rubbed his face on them like a fawning dog. Ghanim is another "softy" lover, a favourite character in Arab tales; and by way of contrast, the girl is masterful enough.
Because the Abbaside Caliphs descend from Al-Abbas paternal uncle of Mohammed. The text means more explicitly, "O descendant of the Prophet's uncle!"
The most terrible part of a _belle passion_ in the East is that the beloved will not allow her lover leave of absence for an hour.
It is hard to preserve these wretched puns. In the original we have "O spray" (or branch) of capparis-shrub (_aráki_) which has been thinned of leaf and fruit (_tujna_, _i.e._, whose fruit, the hymen, has been plucked before and not by me) I see thee (_aráka_) against me sinning (_tajní_).
Apparently the writer forgets that the Abbaside banners and dress were black, originally a badge of mourning for the Imám Ibrahim bin Mohammed put to death by the Ommiade Caliph Al-Marwán. The modern Egyptian mourning, like the old Persian, is indigo-blue of the darkest; but, as before noted, the custom is by no means universal.
Koran, chapt. iv. In the East as elsewhere the Devil quotes Scripture.
A servant returning from a journey shows his master due honour by appearing before him in travelling suit and uncleaned.
The first name means "Rattan"; the second "Willow-wand," from the "Bán" or "Khiláf" the Egyptian willow (_Salix Ægyptiaca_ Linn.) vulgarly called "Safsáf." Forskal holds the "Bán" to be a different variety.
Arab. "Ta'ám," which has many meanings: in mod. parlance it would signify millet, holcus-seed.
_i.e._ "I well know how to deal with him."
The Pen (title of the Koranic chapt. lxviii.) and the Preserved Tablet (before explained).
These plunderings were sanctioned by custom. But a few years ago, when the Turkish soldiers mutinied about arrears of pay (often delayed for years) the governing Páshá would set fire to the town and allow the men to loot what they pleased during a stated time. Rochet (_soi-disant_ D'Héricourt) amusingly describes this manœuvre of the Turkish Governor of Al-Hodaydah in the last generation (Pilgrimage iii. 381).