120, N. Salim, Sultan, Of Egypt, I. 146 Salkh, The Kind Of Circumcision Among The Badawin So Called, Ii.

110 Salma al-Mutadalliyah, great-grandmother of the Prophet, i. 351, n. Salman, the Persian, companion of the Prophet, i. 414, n. Salman al-Farsi, the Masjid, ii.

48 Salmanhudi, Al- (popularly El Samhoudy), his testimony respecting the tomb of the Prophet, i. 323 Remarks on his name, 323, n. His burial-place, 323, n. His account of the graves of the Prophet and the first two caliphs, 340 Unsuccessful endeavour to purchase a copy of Al-Samanhudi, 340, n. Visits the tombs of the Hujrah, 368, n. Salt, sacredness of the tie of “terms of salt,” ii. 53, n. The bond of, sacredness of, among the Badawin, 112 The Syrians called “abusers of the salt,” 133, n. Salutation of peace in the East, i. 143, 151, 287 Samanhud, the ancient Sebennitis, i. 323, n. Sambuk, i. 178 Description of, 188 Samman, Mohammed al-, the saint, i. 426 His Zawiyah, or oratory, near Ohod, 426 Samun wind, i. 149, 265, n. Its effects on the skin, ii. 69 And on the travellers’ temper, 127 The, on the road between Al-Madinah and Meccah, 129 Sanctuary, right of, in the Ka’abah, ii. 325 The Prophet’s. See Ka’abah [p.467] Sand, pillars of, in Arabia, ii. 69 Arab superstition respecting them, 66 Sandals donned when approaching Meccah, ii. 139 Sandal, the Oriental, i. 236 Uncomfortable and injurious to wearers of them, 236, n. Sanding instead of washing, when water cannot be obtained, i. 261 Sandstone, yellow (Hayar Shumaysi), of Meccah, ii. 295, n. Saniyat Kuda’a, near Meccah, ii. 152 Saracen, derivation of the word, i. 187, n. Saracens, Gibbon’s derivation of the name, ii. 76, n. Saracenic style of architecture, i. 90, 92, 364 Sarf, Al- (grammar of the verb), study of, in schools, i. 104 Sariyah, or night march, disagreeableness of, ii. 67, 68 Sarraf, or money changer, ii. 235 Sarsar wind, i. 151, n. Sa’ud, the Wahhabi, i. 242 Besieges the city of Al-Madinah, i. 369 Saur, Jabal, Mohammed’s stay in the cave of, i. 355, n. Its distance from Al-Madinah, 379 Sawadi, or black grapes, i. 404 Sawik, the food so called, i. 275, n. Sayh, Al-, the torrent at Al-Madinah, i. 395, 399, 420 Sayhani, Al-, the date so called, i. 401 Sayl, or torrents, in the suburbs of Al-Madinah, i. 380 Sayyalah, the Wady, i. 274 The cemetery of the people of, 274, n. Sayyid, Abu ’l Hayja, Sultan of Egypt, his present to the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 366, n. Sayyid Ali, vice-intendant of the Mosque of Meccah, ii. 319 Sayyidna Isa, future tomb of, i. 326 Sayyids, great numbers of, at Al-Madinah, ii. 3 Their origin, 3, n. Dress of Sayyids in Al-Hijaz, 4 The Sayyid Alawiyah, 4 Graves of the, at Al-Bakia, 32 Schools in Egypt, i. 102 Course of study in Al-Azhar, 103, et seq. Intonation of the Koran taught in, 106 Science, exact and natural, state of, in Egypt, i. 108, n. Scorpions near Meccah, ii. 179 “Sea of Sedge,” i. 196 Seasons, divided into three, by the Arabs, i. 383 Sebastiani, General, i. 112, n. Sebennitis, the modern Samanhud, i. 323, n. Semiramis, eunuchs first employed by, i. 371, n. Sena’a, city of, its depravity, ii. 107, n. Senna plant, abundance of the, in Arabia, ii. 72 Its growth in the Deserts, 137 Sepulchre, the Holy, imitations of, in Christian churches, i. 95 Sermons, Moslem, ii. 313 The Sermons of Sa’adi, 165 The sermon on Mount Arafat, 290 The Khutbat al-Wakfah, Sermon of the Standing (upon Arafat), 197 The Sermon at the Harim, 225 Impression made by it on the hearers, 226 Sesostris, ships of, i. 189 His blindness, 385 Shafe’i, Al-, Mosque of, i. 105, n. Shafe’i, Imam, his vision of Ali, ii. 184, n. Shafe’i, Masalla, or place of prayer of the Shafe’i school, i. 310, n. [p.468] Shafe’i pilgrimage, the compendium of Mohammed of Shirbin relating to, ii. 281 et seq. Shafe’i school, mufti of, at Al-Madinah, i. 373 Shahan, the Benu (a Jewish tribe), in Arabia, i. 347, n. Shajar Kanadil, or brass chandelier of the hypæthral court of the Prophet’s Mosque, i. 339 Shaking hands (Musafahah), Arab fashion of, i. 52 Shame, a passion with Eastern nations; i. 37 Shami, Bab al-, or Syrian gate, of Al-Madinah, i. 391 Shami pomegranates, of Al-Madinah, i. 405 Shamiyah, or Syrian, ward of Meccah, ii. 153 Quarrels of the, with the Sulaymaniyah quarter, 153 Shammas bin Osman, his tomb at Ohod, i. 429 Shamsan, Jabal, the burial-place of Cain, ii. 160, n. Sharai and Bi-Sharai, the two orders of Darwayshes, i. 15 Shararif, or trefoiled crenelles in the walls of Al-Madinah, i. 392 Sharbat Kajari, the poison of the Persians, ii. 86 Shark, Al-, i. 266 Explanation of the name, 266, n. Sharki, the Darb al-, i. 380 Sharzawan, Al-, or base of the Ka’abah, ii. 298, n. Shaving in the East, ii. 14 Shaw, Dr. Norton, i. 1, 5 Shawarib, Abu, the father of mustachios, ii. 53 Shaybah, generally called Abd al-Muttalib, grandfather of the Prophet i. 351, n. Shaybah, Ibn, his account of the burial-place of Aaron, i. 346 Shaybah, Bab Benu, legend of, of the Ka’abah, ii. 161, n. The true sangre azul of Al-Hijaz, 206 Keepers of the keys of the Ka’abah, 206 The chief Shaykh Ahmad, 206, n. Shaykh, explanation of the term, i. 14 Description of an Arab, fully equipped for travelling, 234 Shaykhayn, the “two shaykhs,” Abu Bakr and Osman, ii. 2 Shaytan al-Kabir (the Great Devil), ceremony of throwing stones at, ii. 203 Sheep, the three breeds of, in Al-Hijaz, ii. 17 The milk of the ewe, 17 Shems al-Din Yusuf, al-Muzaffar, chief of Yaman, his contribution to the fifth Mosque of the Prophet, i. 368 Sharifs, or descendants of Mohammed, i. 327 Great numbers of, at Al-Madinah, ii.

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