black bile
(melancholia).
[FN#43] The distinctive colour of which is white.
[FN#44] Koran li. 26.
[FN#45] Mohammed.
[FN#46] Koran ii. 64, referring to an expiatory heifer which
the Jews were commanded, through Moses, to sacrifice.
[FN#47] See note, Vol III. p. 104 {Vol. 3, FN#19}
[FN#48] Sulafeh.
[FN#49] Sewalif, plural of salifeh (equivalent of sulafeh). A
play upon the double meaning of the word is, of course,
intended.
[FN#50] Syn. yellowness (isfirar).
[FN#51] A title of the Prophet.
[FN#52] His wife Zubeideh.
[FN#53] i.e. his beautiful slave-girls.
[FN#54] i.e. his beautiful slave-girls.
[FN#55] Title of Saladin (Selaheddin) and several other
Eyoubite Sultans of Egypt and Syria. It is equivalent to our
"Defender of the Faith."
[FN#56] Koran xli. 46.
[FN#57] A town of Upper Egypt.
[FN#58] Meaning the merchant, whose name, Abou Jaafer or the
like, he had learnt from the tailor.
[FN#59] Muslim Jews.
[FN#60] A well-known jurist at Baghdad in the reign of the
Khalif Mamoun.
[FN#61] Medina.
[FN#62] One of the gates of the great mosque there, wherein is
the tomb of the Prophet.
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