"
[FN#29] Syn. Fortune (ez zeman).
[FN#30] One of the tribes of the Arabs and that to which the
renowned Maan ben Zaideh (see Vol. III. p. 317, {Vol. 3,
FN#121}) belonged.
[FN#31] The Muslims accuse the Jews of having corrupted the
Pentateuch and others of their sacred books, even as the
Christians the Gospels (see Vol. II. page 149, note {Vol. 2,
FN#97}), by expunging or altering the passages foretelling the
coming of Mohammed.
[FN#32] See Vol. I. p. 135, note 2. {Vol. 1, FN#45}
[FN#33] i.e. as a martyr.
[FN#34] The force of this comparison will best appear from the
actual figuration of the Arabic double-letter Lam-Alif (Anglice
L.A.) which is made up of the two letters *
,
(initial form of Lam) and * (final of Alif,)
and is written thus, *.
[FN#35] i.e. O thou, whose glance is as the light of the
glowing embers.
[FN#36] Thus figured in Arabic *.
[FN#37] Thus *.
[FN#38] Thus *.
[FN#39] Koran xxvil. 12.
[FN#40] Koran iii. 103.
[FN#41] Koran xcii. 1,2.
[FN#42] Sauda, feminine of aswed (black), syn.
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