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Fitnah=seduction, charmer, 76

Fits of religious enthusiasm, 132

Flatterers (the worst of foes), 11

Flowers of speech, 88

Folk follow their King's faith, 157

Fountain-bowl, ornamented with mosaic, etc., 310

"Fundamentals (UsÚl) remembered"=the business is not forgotten, 15

Funerals (meritorious to accompany), 46

Furaydun (see Afridun), 82

Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, 22

Generosity an Arab's ideal because the reverse of his nature, 36

GhÁbah=thicket, 85

GhashÍm="Johnny Raw", 330

GhaylÚlah=slumbering in the morning, 178

GhazÁ (Artemesia, a desert shrub), 24

Ghazban (N. P.)=an angry, violent man, 125

GhÁzi=fighter for the faith, 240

Ghazwah=raid, foray, razzia, 217

Ghussah=calamity which chokes, wrath, 147

Glance compared with a YamÁni sword, 127

Grandfather's name given familiarly, 15

Gospel of Infancy, 228

HadÍd=iron, 316

Hafsah (Caliph Omar's daughter and wife of Mohammed), 165

Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ib.

Hajj al-Akbar and Hajj al-Asghar, 169

HÁjib=groom, chamberlain, 304

Halfah-grass (Poa), 18

HalwÁ=sweetmeats, 47, 212

Hamah=Hightown, 178

Hanbal (see Ahmad bin Hanbal), 204

Hanien=pleasant to thee! after drinking, 5

HanÍfah (see Abu HanÍfah), 207

Hard of heart and soft of sides, 5

Harf=letter, syllable, 307

Hasan al-BasrÍ (theologian), 165

HÁshimi vein, 19

HÁtim al-Asamm (the Deaf), 207

HawÁ al-'UzrÍ=platonic love, 304

"He" for "She" out of delicacy, 179

Head-kerchief (deshabille), 328

HibÁ=cords, garters, 236

HijÁz (al)=Moslem Holy Land, 306

Himalayan brothers, 211, 260

Hips (their volume admired), 285

HishÁm bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), 170

Holiness supposed to act as talisman, 251

Honour amongst thieves, 159

Horses not taught to leap, 89

Hospitals hated, 70

Hubb al-Watan=patriotism, 183

Hunger (burns), 144

Hungry judges "hanging judges", MarhÚm (f. MarhÚmah)=late lamented, 129, 196

MarjÁnah=coral branch (P.N.), 100

Marriage-sheet inspected, 50

Martyrs (still alive), 242

Maskharah=buffoon, 143

Maslamah bin Abd al-Malik, 167

MatmÚrah=underground cell, 39

MayzÚn (Badawi wife of Caliph Mu'Áwiyah), 160

Mitrahinna (Minat-ro-hinnu)=port at mouth of canal, 237

Mohammed (best of the first and last), 11

—— (MustafÁ), 40

—— (Periclytus and Paracletus), 226

—— His letter to the Mukaukis, 79

—— abhors the shaveling, 248

—— (Bearer of glad and bad tidings), 257

—— (Congratulator and Commiserator), 260

—— (Best of mankind), 263

Money weighed when old and worn, 145

Monkery abhorred by Mohammed, 248

Moon (blighting effect of its rays), 4

—— masculine in Semitic, 45

Mooring-pole customary in Tigris-Euphrates land, 20

Moses (derivation of the name), 205

—— and Jethro, ib.

—— and the next world, 206

—— and Al-Khizr, 263

Moslems, model Conservatives, 13

—— external, 29

—— peasants kind-hearted, 69

—— familiarity between high and low, 32

Mosques serving as lodgings for poor travellers, 69

Mother's milk=nature, 44

Mu'Áwiyah (Caliph), 160; 161

Muazzin (who calls to prayer), 306

Mu'ujizah=miracle of a prophet, 237

MÚsÁ=Moses, 205

Musakhkham (Al-)=the defiled Cross, 220

Musk (scent of heaven), 300

MuzanÍ (Al-), 208

Mu'ayyad (Sultan and calligrapher), 32

MustafÁ (the chosen)=Mohammed, 40

NahÁs ahmar=copper, 327

Na'Íman=may it benefit thee! after bathing, etc., 5

NÁjiyah=Salvadora, 145

NajrÁn (in Syria), 232

NakfÚr=Nicephorus, 77

Nakh=make a camel kneel down by the cry Ikh! Ikh!, 139

Nakl-i-safar (move preliminary to a journey), 84

Naming of a child, 174

NÁr (fire), 163

Narcissus (with negro eyes=yellowish white), 24

NawÁ=date-stone; NawÁyah=severance, 198

ZukÁk al-NakÍb=Syndic street, 325

ZunnÁr=????, confounded with the "Janeo", 215