May I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, 110. Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, 220. Merchants wear dagger and sword, 38. Mizwad (or Mizwád) = _lit._ provision bag, 222. Mohammed Ali Pasha (the “Great”), 9. More cutting = more bewitching, 143. Morning and evening = day and night for ever, 195. Moslems think the more you see of them the more you like them, 208. Mu’ajjalah = money paid down before consummation, 141. Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce, 141. Mubáh = an action not sinful (_harám_) or quasi-sinful (_makrúh_) (_tr._ “lawfully”), 12. Muhattakát = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace (_tr._ “unveiled”), 46. Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” 5. Mukaddam = Captain, 7. Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the Harem, 265. Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, 100. Musáfahah = clapping palm (of the hand), 225. Mustauda = strong box, 9. Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the Jinn), 85. Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (_tr._ “of the number of the new,”) 82. Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police), 30. Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, 95. Nadd, a compound perfume, 108. Nahnu = we (for I), 28. Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, 171. “Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood), 83. Nasrín = moss-rose, 115. Nawwáb (_pl._ of Náib) = a Nabob (_tr. lit._ “deputies”), 8. Názilah = descent (of calamity), 176. Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” 286. Necklace-pearls = the cup-bearer’s teeth, 253. Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), 19. Night beset his back = darkened behind him, 197. Niká (_lit._ sand hill) = the swell of the throat, 252. Nún al-taakid = the N of injunction, 23. Nuzhat-í = pleasance, 45. Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, 17. Oil, anointing with, for incipient consumption, 75. “On my shop” = bit of boarding wherethe master sits, or on a stool in thestreet, 281. Orisons = the prayers of the last day andnight, 94. Palace between two rivers = In Rauzah-island, 281. Palace not the place for a religious andscrupulous woman, 229. Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, 152. Parturition and death easy compared withboth processes in the temperates of Europe, 23. Payne quoted, 28, 54, 67, 73, 85, 110, 112, 154, 191, _ib._, 200, 227, 231, 248, 251, 267, 275, 281. Perjury easily expiated amongst Moslems, 38. Pilgrimage quoted— i. 62, 20 i. 87, 71 i. 100, 281 i. 119, 54 i. 127, 152 i. 173, 9 i. 321, 63 i. 338, 220 ii. 57, _ib._ ii. 297, 222 iii. 68, 59 iii. 385, 22 iii. 385, 51 “Plied him with wine,” a favourite habit with mediæval Arabs, 50. Poetry (Persian,) often alludes to the rose, etc., 99. Police (Eastern), 6. Professional singers, becoming freed women and turning “respectable,” 254.