Dwellings Of The Arabs In The Time Of Mohammed, 359 The Seasons Divided By Them Into Three, 383 Diseases Of The Arabs Of Al-Hijaz, 384, Et Seq.

The Arabs not the skilful physicians that they were, 390 Portrait of the farmer race of Arabs, 407 The Arzah, or war dance, 419 Arab superstitions, 427 Difference between the town and country Arab, ii.

13 Their marriages, 23, et seq. Their funerals, 24 Their difficulty of bearing thirst, 69 The races of Al-Hijaz, 76 et seq. Arab jealousy of being overlooked, 318, n. Arabic. Generalisation not the forte of the Arabic language, 250 Its facilities for rhyming, i. 319, n. Traditions respecting its origin, 344 Said to be spoken by the Almighty, 344, n. Changes in the classical Arabic, ii. 15 Purity of the Badawi dialect, 98, n. Examination of the objections to Arabic as a guttural tongue, 99, n. Difference in the articulation of several Badawi clans, 99, n. Suited to poetry, but, it is asserted, not to mercantile transactions, 100 The vicious pronounciation of Indians and slaves, 184, n. The charming song of Maysunah, 190 The beautiful Tumar character, 215 Differences of opinion among travellers and linguists respecting Arabic and its dialects, 235, n. Arafat, the Masjid, at Al-Kuba, i. 412 Tall Arafat, 412 Arafat, mount (anciently Jabal Ilal, now Jabal al-Rahmah), ceremony of the pilgrimage to, ii. 289 Description of, 189 Former high cultivation of the Arafat plain, 187 Derivation of the name of [p.421] the mount, 188, n. The camp arrangements at, 189 Superstitious rite on behalf of women at, 189 The ceremonies of the day of Arafat, 192, et seq. The sermon, 197 The hurry from Arafat, 199 The approach to the Arafat plain, 182 Araki, the Cognac of Egypt and Turkey, i. 134 Called at Cairo “sciroppo di gomma,” 144, n. A favourite drink among all classes and sexes, 144, n. Arbun (earnest money), ii. 52 Arches, pointed, known at Cairo 200 years before they were introduced into England, i. 96 Architecture, the present Saracenic Mosque-architecture, origin of the, i. 364, n. Simple tastes of the Arabs in, 396 The climate inimical to the endurance of the buildings, 396 Arian heretics, i. 143, n. Arimi, tribe of Arabs so called, i. 145 Aris, Al-, (a bridegroom), ii. 23 Arithmetic, Moslem study of, i. 108, n. Arkam bin al-Arkam, last king of the Amalik, i. 345 Armenian marriage, i. 123 Arms prohibited from being carried in Egypt, i. 17 Arms of Arabs, 237, 248; ii. 105, 106 Those worn by Oriental travellers, i. 238 Should always be kept bright, 238 Arms of Arnaut Irregular horse, 266 The use of the bayonet invaluable, 269, n. Stilettos of the Calabrese, 269, n. Sabres preferred to rifles by Indians, 269, n. Army, amount of the Turkish of Al-Hijaz, i. 393, n. The battalion regiment and camp, 394, n. Arnaud, M., his visit to the ruins of the dyke of Mareb, i. 348, n. Arnauts. See Albanians Arwam or Greeks in Al-Madinah, i. 292 Arsh, or throne, of God, ii. 319 Art, Arab origin of, i. 95, n. Arusah, Al- (a bride), ii. 23, n. Arzah, or Arab war-dance, i. 419 As’ad bin Zararah, his conversion by the Prophet, i. 352 Asal Asmar, or brown honey, ii. 130, n. Asclepias gigantea (ashr), its luxuriance in the deserts of Arabia, ii. 137 Bears the long-sought apple of Sodom, 138, n. The fruit used as a medicine by the Arabs, 138, n. Called the “silk-tree,” 138, n. Its probable future commercial importance, 138, n. Ashab, or Companions of the Prophet, i. 320 The Ustuwanat al-Ashab, or Column of the Companions, 326, n. Graves of the, at Al-Bakia, ii. 43 Ashab al-Suffah, or “Companions of the Sofa,” i. 363, n. Ashab, the relationship among the Badawin so called, ii. 113 Ashgar, Ali Pasha, the Emir al-Hajj, ii. 71 Ashr (Asclepias gigantea, which see) Ashwat, or seven courses, round the Ka’abah, ii. 167, n. Askar, the Masjid al-, ii. 49 Asr, al-, or afternoon prayers, i. 311, n. Assayd, the Jewish priest of Al-Madinah, i. 350 [p.422] “Asses turning their back upon Allah’s mercy,” i. 347 Asses, of Al-Madinah, ii. 17 Usefulness of the ass in the East, ii. 241, n. The best and the highest-priced animals, 241, n. Assassination, how to put an end to at Naples and Leghorn, i. 258, n. Assassins (from Hashshashshiyun), i. 187, n. Astronomy among the modern Egyptians, i. 108, n. Among the Badawin, ii. 107 Aswad (dark or black), the word, i. 381, n. Atakah, Jabal (Mountain of Deliverance), i. 195 Atfah, i. 30 Auf, the Benu, their language, ii. 99, n. Their subdivisions, 120, n. Aukaf, or bequests left to the Prophet’s Mosque, i. 374 Those given to the Benu Hosayn, ii. 4 The Nazir al-Aukaf at Constantinople, 7 Aulad Sam bin Nuh (or Amalikah, Amalik) inspired with a knowledge of the Arabic tongue, i. 343 Settles at Al-Madinah, 344 Identified with the Phœnicians, Amalekites, Canaanites, and Hyksos, 343, n. Supplanted by the Jews, 347 Aus, Arab tribe of, i. 147, 149 Their wars with the Kharaaj, 149 Converted by Mohammed, 352 Their plot against Mohammed, 358 Their mixture with the Amalikah, ii. 79 Austrians, despised in Egypt, i. 111 Awali, the, or plains about Kuba, i. 380 Awam, the, or nobile vulgus of Al-Madinah, i. 375 Ayat, or Koranic verse, i. 353 Ayishah accedes to the wishes of Osman and Hasan to be buried near the Prophet, i. 325 Her pillar in the Mosque of the Prophet, 335 Her chamber, or the Hujrah, surrounded with a mud wall, 363 Anecdote of her, ii. 34, n. Her tomb, 38 Her jealousy of the Coptic girl Mariyah, 47, n. Ayn al-Birkat, i. 227 The Ayn Ali, 227 Ayn al-Zarka (azure spring), of Al-Madinah, i. 381 Ayr, Jabal, its distance from Al-Madinah, i. 379 Cursed by the Prophet, 422 Ayyas bin Ma’az, converted by the Prophet, i. 352 Ayyaz, Kazi, his works, i. 106, n. Ayyub, Abu, the Ansari, ii.

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