250 Jin-Seng, Or China Root, Notice Of, I. 56, N. Jiyad, Jabal, The Two Hills So Called, Ii.

174 Jizyat, or capitation tax levied on infidels, i. 233, n. Job, tomb of, ii.

275, n. Journey, a day’s length of, ii. 63, n. Jubayr, Ibn, on the position of the tombs of the Prophet and the first two Caliphs, i. 324 Referred to, i. 399, n., ii. 40 Jubayr bin Mutin, his march to Ohod, i. 433 Jubbah, i. 17, n. Judari, Al- (or Small-pox), indigenous to the countries bordering the Red Sea, i. 384 Inoculation practised in Al-Madinah, i. 385 The disease how treated, i. 385 Inoculation in Yaman, i. 385, n. Diet of the patient, i. 385 Jumah, Bab al-, or Friday gate, of Al-Madinah, i. 391 The cemetery of Schismatics near, 395 Jumah, the Masjid al-, near Al-Madinah, ii. 45 Jumma Masjid, of Bijapur, the third largest cathedral in the world, i. 364, n. Jurh al-Yamani (the Yaman ulcer), i. 390 Jurham, the Benu, their mixture with the Himyaritic tribes, ii. 79 Their foundation of the sixth House of Allah, 322 Legend of their origin, 322 Justinian, i. 202, n.

KA’AB, the Jewish priest of Al-Madinah, i. 350, n. Ka’ab al-Ahbar (or Akhbar), poems of, i. 107, n., 146 Ka’abah (or Bayt Ullah) i. 305, 321, n. Superstitious reverence of the Jews of Al-Madinah for, 350, n. Miraculously shown to Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel, 361. Times of the opening [p.445] of, ii. 398 Extracts from Burckhardt’s description of, 294 Its dimensions, ii. 294 Its domes and pillars, 294 Its bad workmanship, 295 Periods of opening it, 298 The doors of, 298 The famous Hijar al-Aswad, or Black Stone, 300 The Rukn al-Yamai, 303 Al-Ma’ajan, or place of mixing, 304 The Myzab, or water-spout, 304 The mosaic pavement, 305 Tombs of Hagar and Ishmael, 305 Limits of the Ka’abah, 306 Al-Mataf, or place of circumambulation, 307 The four Makams, or stations for prayer, 307 Zemzem, or the holy well, 307 Al-Darah, or the ladder, 311 Stone on which Abraham stood, 311 The boast that the Ka’abah is never, night nor day, without devotees, 317, n. Legends of the Ten Houses of Allah, 319, et seq. Proofs of the Ka’abah’s sanctity, 325 The pilgrim’s first visit to it, 160 Legend of the Bab Benu Shaybah, 161 Ceremonies of the visit, 162, et seq. Visit of the pilgrim to, 206 Sketch of the interior of the building, 208 Ceremony of opening, in Ibn Jubayr’s time, 209, n. Expenses of visiting, 209 Reasons for all pilgrims not entering, 211 The first covering of the, 212 Changes in the style and make of the Kiswah, or curtain, 213 Inscriptions on the Kiswah, 215 Ka’aka’an, Jabal, the residence of the Benu Jurham, ii. 322 Kabirah, Al-, or lady of the house, ii. 160 Kindness of one to the pilgrim at Meccah, 216 Her affectionate farewell of the pilgrim, 259 Kadiriyah, an order of Darwayshes, i. 14 Kaf, “to go to Kaf,” explained, i. 17, n. Kafr al-Zajyat, i. 30 Kaid-Bey, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, i. 313, n. Rebuilds the Mosque of the Prophet, 324, n., 340 “Kayf,” explanation of, i. 9 Sonnini’s description of, 9, n. Kayf on the brink of the well at Al-Kuba, 412 Kairom and its potteries, i. 29 Kalaun, Sultan of Egypt, his improvements of the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 366, n. Kalka-shandi, Al-, his testimony respecting the tomb of the Prophet, i. 323 Kamis, or cotton shirt, of Arab Shaykhs, i. 236 Kanat (spears), of the Badawin, ii. 106 Kanisat, or Christian Church, i. 365 Kansuh al-Ghori (Campson Gaury), King of Egypt, i. 202, n. Kara Gyuz, the amusement so called, i. 81 Karashi tribe of Arabs, i. 145 Kasr, Al-, the village of, i. 376, n. Kaswa, Al-, the she-camel of Mohammed the Prophet, i. 354, 360, 407 Kata, or sand-goose, the (Pterocles melanogaster), i. 154 Katibs, or writers of the tomb of the Prophet, i. 371 Katirah race, its mixture with the Himyaritic tribes, ii. 79 Kaukab al-Durri, or constellation of pearls suspended to the curtain round the Prophet’s tomb, i. 322 It[s] apparent worthlessness, 322 Plundered by the Wahhabis, 369 Kawwas, or police officer, of Egypt, i. 20 [p.446] {|Kazi (Cadi), or chief judge of Al-Madinah, i. 373 Customs of the, ii. 87 Kerbela, battle of, ii. 40, n. Khadijah (one of the Prophet’s fifteen wives), her burial-place, ii. 38 Khadim, or guardian, of a Mosque, i. 411 Of the tombs at Al-Bakia, ii. 36 Khakani, the Persian poet, quoted, ii. 162 Khalawiyah tribes of Arabs, despised by the other clans, ii. 121 Khalid Bey, brother of Abdullah bin Sa’ud, his noble qualities, ii. 272 Khalid bin Walid, i. 425 Anecdote of him, ii. 230 Khaluk, a perfume so called, i. 335 Khandak (the moat) celebrated in Arabian history, i.399 Khasafat al-Sultan, of the Mosque at Al-Madinah, i.316, n. Khatan bin Saba, tribe of, i. 340 Khatbys, of the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 375 Khatim, Bir al-, or Kuba well, i. 382, n. Khattabi, Al-, his opinions respecting Al-Madinah, i. 379, n. Khatyb, or Moslem preacher, ii. 313 Khaybar, in Arabia, Israelite settlements at, i. 346, 347 The colony entirely extinct, 347, n. Capture of, 361 Its distance from Al-Madinah, ii. 30 Khayf, Al-, i. 262 The Mosque of, at Muna, ii. 179 Khaznadar, the treasurer of the Prophet’s tomb, i. 371 Khazraj, its mixture with the Amalikah, i. 79 Arab tribe of, 347 Its wars with the Aus, 349 Converted by Mohammed, 352 Its plot against Mohammed, 358 Khitbah, or betrothal in Arabia, ii. 23 Khitmahs, or persuals of the Koran on behalf of the reigning Sultan, i. 316, n. Khubziyah, one of the orders of the Eunuchs of the Tomb, i. 371 Khudabakhsh, the Lahore shawl merchant, his profuse pilgrimages, ii. 210, n. Khurunfish, Al-, the manufactory at which the Kiswah is now worked, ii. 215 Khusraw, his work on divinity, “Al Durar,” i. 106 Khutaba, the Shaykh al-, of the Prophet’s mosque, i. 374 Khutbah, or Friday Sermon of the Prophet, i. 335 Khutbat al-Wakfah (“Sermon of the Standing” upon Arafat), ii.

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