4 Costume Of The Madani, 14 Dress Of The Badawin, 115 The Ceremony Of Al-Ihram (Or Assuming The Pilgrim

Dress) on approaching Meccah, 139 Costume of the regions lying west of the Red Sea, 139 The style of dress

Called Taylasan, 226 Drinking bout with an Albanian, i. 153 Drinking water, Oriental method of, i. 6 Drinks, intoxicating, not known to the Badawin, ii. 118 Dromedaries, sums charged for the hire of, i. 141 Dromedary-travelling compared with camel-travelling, i. 281 Dromedaries of Al-Madinah, ii. 16 Druze mysteries, foundation of, i. 97 Dry storms of Arabia, i. 247 Dua, the, or supplication after the two-bow prayers, i. 312, n. Dubajet, Aubert, i. 112. n. Dust storms, ii. 129 Dye used for the beard, ii. 14 Dysentery, frequent occurrence of, in the fruit season in Arabia, i. 388 Popular treatment of, 389 Dwellings of the Arabs in the time of Mohammed, i. 357

EARNEST money (arbun), ii. 52 Ebna, the descendants of the soldiers of Anushirwan, ii. 78, n. Echinus, the, common in the Red Sea, i. 221, n. Eddeh, Al-, the dress in the baths at Cairo, ii. 139 Education, Moslem, i. 185, et seq. Remarks on Mr. Bowring’s strictures on, 109 Egypt, curiosity of the police, i. 2 Alexandria, 8, 10 Egypt’s first step in civilisation, 17 Inconveniences of the passport system of, 18 Officials of, 19 Her progress during the last half-century, 28 The Nile, 29 The Barrage bridge, 30 The Wakalahs or inns of, 41 The tobacco of, 64 Shortness of the lives of the natives of Lower Egypt, 69 The worst part of the day in, 77 All Agapemones suppressed in, 81 Fashions of young Egyptians, 99 Subjects taught in Egyptian schools, 103, et seq. Theology in Egypt, 106 State of learning not purely religious, 107, et seq. Degenerate state of modern Egyptian taste in poetry, 108, n. Acquirements of the Egyptians in the exact sciences, 108, n. And in natural [p.434] science, 108 Their capabilities for being good linguists, 180, n. Their knowledge of the higher branches of language, 108, n. State of periodical literature in Egypt, 109, n. Bigotry of the Egyptians, 110 Their feelings at the prospect of the present Russian war, 111 Their views respecting various nations of foreigners, 111 Their longings for European rule, 111 Their hatred of a timid tyranny, 112 An instance of this, 112, n. The proposed ship canal and railway in, 113 Importance of, to the rulers of India, 113 Secret societies of, 113 Press-gangs in, 117 Employment of Albanian Irregulars in, 133 Semi-religious tradition of the superiority of Osmanlis over Egyptians, 147, n. Story respecting this, 148 Seasons of severe drought, 180 Diseases of the country, 181 Food of the Suezians, 182 Reason of the superiority in the field of Egyptian soldiers, 184 Insolence of demeanour and coarseness of language of the officials in Egypt, 194, n. Ruinous state of Al-Hijaz, the effect of the wars between the Egyptians and the Wahhabis, 254, n. Bad quality of the coffee of, 290, n. The scourge of ophthalmia, 385, n. The pot-bellied children of the banks of the Nile, 406, n. Their monopoly of milk, curds, and butter, at Al-Madinah, ii. 9 “Elephant, affair of the,” ii. 321, n. Embracing, Oriental mode of, i. 287 Emir al-Hajj, of the Damascus Caravan, ii. 420 His privileges, 420 Abu Bakr the first Emir al-Hajj, 420, n. English, how regarded in Egypt, i. 111 Fable in Arabia, respecting their desire to become Moslems, ii. 230 Eothen, reference to, i. 388, n. Epithets, Arab, i. 277, n., 305, 327 The epithets applied to Al-Madinah, 377 Applied to the Syrians, ii. 133 And to Damascus, 133, n. Era, Moslem, commencement of, i. 355, n. Erythræan Sea, i. 196, n. Escayrac de Lanture, M., his preparations for a pilgrimage to Meccah, i. 4, n. Esmah, Sultanah, sister of Sultan Mahmud, i. 371 Etiquette in Al-Hijaz, i. 419, n. Eunuchs of the Prophet’s tomb, i. 316, n., 321, n., 322, n., 371, n. Antiquity of eunuchs, 371, n. Originated with Semiramis, 371, n. Employment of, unknown at the time of the Prophet, 371, n. Considerations which gave rise to the employment of, 371, n. Method of addressing them, 371, n. Value of the title of Eunuch of the Tomb, 371, n. Shaykh of the Eunuchs, 371 The three orders of Eunuchs of the Tomb, 371 The curious and exceptional character of the eunuch, 372 His personal appearance 372 Value of eunuch slaves at Al-Madinah, ii. 13 Eunuchs of the Mosque at Meccah, ii. 319 Respect paid to a eunuch at Meccah, 255 Euphorbiæ, in Arabia, ii. 72 Eve’s tomb, near Jeddah, ii. 273 Traditions respecting it, 275 Ezion-Geber, i. 189

FACE-GASHING in Meccah, ii. 234 In other countries, 234, n. Fadak, town of, founded by the Jews, i. 347 [p.435] Faddah, value of the Egyptian, ii. 11, n. Fahd, Shaykh, the robber-chief, i. 257 Fa-hian quoted, ii. 276 Fairies, good and bad, origin of, i. 314 Fakihs, at the Mosque at Al-Madinah, i. 316 Falconry, among the Arabs, ii. 104 Origin of the sport, 104, n. Its perfection as a science in the 12th century, 104 Farainah (Pharaohs), origin of, according to the Moslem writers, i. 344 Faraj Yusuf, the merchant of Jeddah, i. 47 Farantit. [See] Filaria Medinensis Farrash (tent-pitchers, &c.), ii. 71 Farrashin, or free servants of the Mosque, i. 372 “Farsh al-Hajar,” of the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 332 Faruk, the Separator, a title of the Caliph Omar, i. 320 Farz, or obligatory prayers, i. 311, n. Fasts, Moslems’, i. 76 Fath, the Masjid al- (of Victory), ii. 48 Fatihah, i. 194, 200 Repeated at the tomb of the Prophet, 319 Said for friends or relations, 319, n. Fatimah, the Lady, her tomb at Al-Madinah, i. 308, n. Gate of, 315 Prayer repeated at her tomb, 327 Epithets applied to her, 327, n. The doctrine of her perpetual virginity, 327, n. Her garden in the Mosque of the Prophet, 337 Three places lay claim to be her burial-place, 339 Mosque of, at Kuba, 411 Her tomb, ii.

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