[FN#38] A certain fixed succession of prayers and acts of adoration is called a rekah (or bow) from the inclination of the body that occurs in it. The ordained prayers, occurring five times a day, consist of a certain number of rekahs. [FN#39] i.e. "There is no god but God", etc. [FN#40] or sinister conjunction of the planets. [FN#41] Menkeleh, a game played with a board and draughtmen, partaking of the character of backgammon, draughts and fox-and-geese. [FN#42] A common Oriental substitute for soap. [FN#43] i.e. newly dug over. [FN#44] lit. rukh. [FN#45] A sweet-scented, variegated wood. [FN#46] The Arabs consider a slight division of the two middle teeth a beauty. [FN#47] The Egyptian privet; a plant whose flowers have a very delicious fragrance. [FN#48] A kind of mocking-bird. [FN#49] Of providence. [FN#50] Literally, "O my eyes!" [FN#51] A niche in the wall, which indicates the position the worshipper must assume, in order to face Mecca, in accordance with the ritual of prayer. [FN#52] cf. Germ. Zuckerpuppchen. [FN#53] i.e., moles, which are considered a great beauty in the East. [FN#54] A female genie. [FN#55] The unveiling or displaying of the bride before her husband is the culminating ceremony of a Muslim wedding of the better class. The bride is always displayed in the richest clothes and ornament that can be mustered or borrowed for the occasion. [FN#56] Moles? [FN#57] There is a play upon words in this line, founded upon the double meaning of the word shirk, sharing (or partnership) and polytheism or the attributing partners or equals to God (as in the Trinity), the one unpardonable sin of the Muslim religious code. [FN#58] Both afterwards Khalifs. [FN#59] i.e. God. [FN#60] lit "though lying save, yet truth saves and saves." [FN#61] On which she sits to be displayed. [FN#62] Placed there for the purpose of the ablution prescribed by the ceremonial law. [FN#63] Speaking, of course, ironically and supposing Bedreddin to be the hunchback. [FN#64] Bedreddin. [FN#65] Mosul is a town of Mesopotamia, some two hundred miles N.E. of Baghdad. It is celebrated for its silk and muslin manufactories. The Mosulis doubtless set the fashion in turbans to the inhabitants of Baghdad and Bassora, and it would appear from the Vizier's remark that this fashion was notably different from that followed at Cairo. [FN#66] Eye-powder. The application of kohl to an infant's eyes is supposed to be beneficial. [FN#67] The North wind holds the same place in Oriental metaphor and poetry as does the West wind in those of Europe. [FN#68] Or kernel. [FN#69] lit. puppet or lay figure. [FN#70] Mole. [FN#71] A well-known legist and Cadi of Cufa in the seventh century. [FN#72] The Sun. [FN#73] The word melik 'king,' by changing the second (unwritten) vowel to e becomes melek 'angel'. [FN#74] A measure of about five bushels.