Visits to the tombs, 23, 69, 263 Vulgarisms, 113 Wahhábee women, 225, _n._ Wailing, 258, 262 Wa-lláhi-l-´Aẓeem! (By God the Great!), 16, _n._ Walls, 147 Walnut, 161 Ward (rose), 161-165 Warning of death, 88 Washing, 11 ---- before meals, 136 ---- the dead, 258 Water-bottles, 188, _n._ Water-melon, 159, 160 Waterspout spirits, 37 Weapons, 183 Weaving, 205, 238 Wedding ceremonies, 232-238 ---- propitious months for, 230 Weleed, El-, (Khaleefeh, A.D. 705-715), 112, 118 Welees (saints), 47-79 Weleeyeh (female saint), 66 Well of Bábil, 83 ---- spirits, 37 Weshm (tattooing), 38, _n._ Whirlwind spirits, 36 White coffee (brandy), 154 Wickedness of women, 219 Widows, objections to, 228 Wife, advice of, 219 ---- choice of, 224 ---- duties of, 238, 239 ---- fellow-, 245, _n._ ---- of the Jinn, 36 ---- qualifications of, 227-229 Wiláyeh (saintship), 57, 62 Willow (oriental), 167 Windows, 147 Wine, 15, 148-159 ----, Book of, 151 Witnesses to a marriage, 229 Wives, 207-248 ---- love between two, 246-248 Wives, plurality of, 222, 223 Women, 207-248 ---- in Hell, 219 ---- position of, 240-248 ---- wickedness of, 219 World, Arab notions of, 97-108 Wuḍoo (ablution), 11 Yaạḳoob Eṣ-Ṣaffáree, 144 Yájooj and Májooj, 101, 102, 104 Yásameen (jasmine), 167, _n._ Yá-Seen (=Y. S.; title of 36th chapter of Ḳur-án), 24 Yemen, El-, (South Arabia), 44, 45 Yezeed (Khaleefeh, A.D. 720-724), 208-210 Yóm es-Subooạ (7th day after birth), 187-189 Yoonus (Jonas), 92 Yoosuf (Joseph), 92, 204 ----, the Prophet of the Jinn, 29 Yoosuf Bey, 95 Zaạfarán (crocus or saffron), 167, _n._ Zacharias, 93 Ẓáhir, romance of Eẓ-, 127 Zahr or Zahr-Nárinj (Seville orange-flower), 167, _n._ Zebeeb (raisin wine), 149 Zekáh (alms), 14 Zekeriyà (Zacharias), 93 Zeleekhá, 248 ---- (Potiphar's wife), 204 Zelemboor (son of Satan), 33 Zemzem, will of, 264 Zeyn el-´Ábideen, 255 Zeytoon (olive), 161, _n._ Zijr, Ez-, (auguration), 86 Zikkeers (performances of a zikr), 73 Zikr (Darweesh performance), 73-77, 201, 233 Zinj, Ez-, (S. Ethiopia), 102 Zodiacal signs in horoscopes, 238 Ẓulumát, Eẓ-, (Dark Regions), 103. _See_ Baḥr. AUTHORS AND WORKS QUOTED. (_Authors' names are in small capitals; titles of books in italics. The figures refer to the pages of the present work._) ´ABD-EL-LAṬEEF († 1231), _Historiae Aegypti Compendium_. Ed. White. 138. _Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians_. See LANE. _´Ajáïb el-Makhlooḳát_. See ḲAZWEENEE. _Alcoran_. See _Ḳur-án_, JELÁLEYN, LANE, LANE-POOLE, MARRACCI, SALE. ANṢÁREE, EL-. See KHAZREJEE.
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