The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
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The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Fairy tales; Tales -- Arab countries
[33] In Ibn-Esh-Sheḥneh, "Kuyoothán:" the orthography of this
word is doubtful, as the vowel-points are not written. As the
tradition is related in Ibn-El-Wardee, this bull takes a breath
twice in the course of every day (or twenty-four hours); when
he exhales, the sea flows; and when he inhales, it ebbs. But it
must not be imagined that none of the Arabs have any notion of
the true theory of the tides: the more learned among them
explain this phenomenon by the influence of the moon.--Many of
the Arabs attribute earthquakes to the shaking of this bull.
[34] In Ibn-El-Wardee, a quantity of sand is introduced between
the bull and the fish.
[35] Ed-Demeeree, on the authority of Walib Ibn-Munebbih,
quoted by El-Is-ḥáḳce, _loco laudato_.
[36] Ibn-El-Wardee.
[37] Ḳur-án, ch. xxxix. v. 67.
[38] Idem, ch. xiv. v. 49.
[39] Idem, ch. lxxxix. v. 24.
[40] Khaleel Eẓ-Ẓáhiree, in De Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe, 2nde
ed. tome ii. pp. 10 and 11 of Ar. text.
[41] Ibid.
[42] El-Maḳreezee, quoted by De Sacy, _ubi supra_, pp. 58-62.
[43] Ibn-Khaldoon, in the same, pp. 168 and 169.
[44] Ch. xxxii. v. 13.
[45] Mishḳát el-Maṣábeeḥ, vol. ii. p. 329.
[46] Burckhardt's "Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys," 8vo ed.
vol. i. pp. 178 and 179.
[47] This tree is called, in Arabic, "bán" and "khiláf" or
"khaláf."
[48] The Anacreon of Persia affected to prize the mole upon the
cheek of his beloved above the cities of Samarḳand and Bukhára.
[49] Lawsonia inermis.
[50] In another analysis of the same kind, it is said that four
should be _short_; the hands, the feet, the tongue, and the
teeth; but this is metaphorically speaking; the meaning is,
that these members should be kept within their proper bounds.
(Kitáb el-'Onwán fee Mekáid en-Niswán. MS. in my possession.)
[51] An unnamed author quoted by El-Is-ḥáḳee, in his account of
the 'Abbásee Khaleefeh El-Mutawekkil.
[52] Mir-át ez-Zemán. See also, Ḳur-án, ch. v. v. 65.
[53] The term "'Efreet" is sometimes improperly applied to a
_good_ Jinnee [and also, in Egypt, to the ghost of a dead
person. See "Modern Egyptians," vol. 1. ch. x. Ed.].
[54] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[55] Ch. xv. v. 27; and Commentary of the Jeláleyn. Also,
Ḳur-án, ch. lv. v. 14.
[56] Ch. xxvii. v. 10 and ch. xxviii. v. 31; and Commentary of
the Jeláleyn.
[57] Ch. lv. vv. 39 and 74; and same Commentary.
[58] 'Ekrimeh, from Ibn-'Abbás, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[59] Mujáhid, from the same, ibid.
[60] Hence the appellations of "Jinn" and "Jánn."
[61] Tradition from the Prophet, in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[62] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[63] The worship here spoken of is prostration, as an act of
obeisance to a superior being.
[64] Ḳur-án, ch. xviii. v. 48.
[65] Eṭ-Ṭabaree, quoted in the Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[66] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
[67] Ch. vii. v. 11; and chap. xxxviii. v. 77.
[68] Mir-át ez-Zemán.
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