3 Their Origin, 3, N. Their Intense Pride, 79, N. Forced Celibacy Of Their Daughters, 79, N. Their Bravery, 150,

N. Causes of their pugnacity, 150, n. Sharifi, Al-, the grape so called, i. 404 Shi’ahs, their defilement of

The tombs of Abu Bakr and Omar, i. 321, n. Their antipathy to the Sunnis, 321, n. Their aversion to Abu Bakr, 354, n. Their detestation of Syria and of the Syrians, ii. 138, n. Shibr Katt, i. 30 Shibriyah, or cot, for travelling, ii, 65 Ship-building on the Red Sea, i. 177 [p.469] Ships. The toni or Indian canoe, i. 188, n. The “catamaran” of Madras and Aden, i. 189, n. Shiraz, boasts of the Shi’ahs at, i. 321, n. Shisha, or Egyptian water-pipe, i. 80 Shisha, or travelling pipe, ii. 125 Shopping in Alexandria, i. 11 Shuab Ali, valley of, i. 279, n. Shuab al-Hajj, (the pilgrim’s pass), scene in, i. 272 Shugduf, difference between the Syrian and Hijazi shugduf, i. 418 Dangers to, in “acacia-barrens,” ii. 69 Shuhada (the Martyrs), i. 274 Remarks on, 274 Its past and future honours, 274, n. Visit to the graves of the, at Mount Ohod, 426, 427 Shumays, Bir, yellow sandstone of, ii. 295, n. Shurafa, pl. of Sharif, a descendant of Mohammed, i. 327 Shurum, i. 145 Shushah, or tuft of hair on the poll, i. 163 Sicard, Father, i. 195 Sidr or Lote tree of the Prophet’s Mosque, i. 337 Sie-fa of the Bokte, in Tartary, i. 58 Siesta, i. 299, n. The Kaylulah, or noon siesta, 299 The Aylulah, 299, n. The Ghaylulah, 299, n. The Kaylulah, 299, n. The Faylulah, 299, n. Sikandar Al-Rumi, tomb of, i. 12 Sikanjabin (oxymel), used as a remedy in fevers in Arabia, i. 387 Silk-tree of Arabia. See Asclepias gigantea Sinai, Mount, i. 202 Sinaitic tribes of Arabs, modern, observations on, i. 145, et seq. Chief clans of, 145 Impurity of the race, 146 Their ferocity, 147 How manageable, 147 Sind, dry storms of, i. 247, 265 Singapore, pilgrims from, to Meccah, i. 179 Silat al-Rasul, referred to, i. 384, n. Sittna Zaynab (our Lady Zaynab), Mosque of, at Cairo, i. 98 Siyuti, Al-, his theological works, i. 106, n. Sketching, dangerous among the Badawin, i. 240 Slaves, trade in, at Jeddah and in Egypt, i. 47 Reform in our slave laws throughout the East much needed, 49 Abyssinian slave, style of courting, 59 Slave-hunting in Africa, 60 Condition of slaves in the East, 61 The black slave-girls of Al-Madinah, ii. 12 Value of slave-boys and of eunuchs, 12 Value of the Galla girls, 13 Price of a Jariyah Bayza, or white slave-girl, 13 Female slaves at Meccah, 233 The slave-market of Meccah, 252 The pilgrim’s resolve, if permitted, to destroy the slave-trade, 252 Ease with which the slave-trade may be destroyed in the Red Sea, 252 Small-pox in Arabia. See Judari Smith, Sir L., his defeat of the Beni Bu Ali Arabs, i. 248 Smoking the weed “hashish,” i. 44 Soap, tafl or bole earth used by the Arabs as, i. 415 Sobh Badawin, their plundering propensities, ii. 58 [p.470] Societies, secret, in Egypt, i. 113 Sodom, the long-sought apple of, ii. 138, n. Sola, plain of, near Meccah, ii. 148 Soldier-travellers, fatalities which have befallen them lately, i. 1 Soldiers in Egypt, i. 118 Solomon, King, i. 212 Mosque of, at Jerusalem, connected with, 305 Somalis, dislike of, to tobacco, i. 194, n. Foundation of the tribe, 344, n. Songs of the Badawi Arabs, i. 145 Of Maysunah, ii. 190 Specimen of one, 223 Sonnini, his description of the “Kayf,” i. 9, n. Reference to, 299 His testimony to the virtues of the Harim, ii. 91, n. Sophia’s, St., at Constantinople, the largest Cathedral in the world, i. 364, n. Spanish cathedrals, Oriental origin of, i. 307 Spears (Kanat), of the Badawin, ii. 106 Sports of the Badawin, ii. 104 Springs of Mount Ohod, i. 423, n. Stanhope, Lady Hester, her faith in magic mirrors, i. 288, n. Statuary and pictures forbidden in Mosques, i. 94 Stimulants, effects of drinking, in the East, i. 265, n. Stoa, or Academia, of Al-Madinah, i. 338 Stocks, Dr., of Bombay, reference to, i. 246, n. Stone, obtained near Meccah, ii. 295, n. That of Panopolis, 296 Stone-worship, ii. 301, n. Storm, description of one at Muna, ii. 218 Dry storms of Arabia, i. 247 Streets, of Al-Madinah, i. 392 Students, Moslem, i. 104, n. Wretched prospects, 108 Sudan (Blacksland), i. 177 Suez (Suways), a place of obstacle to pilgrims, i. 128 Safety of the Desert road to, 156 Its want of sweet water, 158, n. Its brackish wells, 158, n. No hammam (or bath) at, 158, n. Number of caravanserais of, 159, n. Want of comfort in them all, 159, n. The farzah, or system of rotation, in the port of, 170, 178 Exorbitant rate of freight at, 170, n. The George Inn at (see George Inn), 173, et seq. Decrease in the number of pilgrims passing through Suez to Meccah, 176 The ship-builders of Suez, 177 Kinds of ships used at, 178 Number of ships at, 178 Imports and exports, 179, 180 Average annual temperature of the year at, 180 Population of, 181 State of the walls, gates, and defences of, 182 Food of the inhabitants of, 182, 183 Their fondness for quarrels, 183 A “pronunciamento” at, 183 Scene on the beach on a July morning, 186 Sufayna, Al-, the village of, ii. 128 Halt of the Baghdad Caravan at, 128 Description of the place, 130 Sufat (half-caste Turk), the present ruling race at Al-Madinah, ii. 5 Suffah, or sofa, companions of the, i. 363 Sufiyan, Abu, his battle with Mohammed at Mount Ohod, i. 423, 425, ii. 47 His daughter, ii. 35 Sufrah, i. 76 “Sufrah hazir,” i. 76, n. [p.471] Suhayl, sells ground at Al-Madinah to Mohammed, i. 357 Sujdah, or single-prostration prayer, i. 312 Suk al-Khuzayriyah, or greengrocers’ market of Al-Madinah, i. 391 Zuk al-Habbabah, or grain market of Al-Madinah, 391 Sula, or Sawab, Jabal, near Al-Madinah, ii.

Enter page number Go  Previous Next
Page 166 of 170
Words from 170454 to 171503 of 175520