Note 131 — Chapter X · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID IN IRAC. A.H. XII. A.D. 633.
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His name was Shîrazâd, for we come now constantly on Persian names. The story is that the Moslems were told to shoot at the eyes of the garrison. And so a thousand of the enemy had their eyes transfixed; whence the siege was called ‘The action of the Eyes.’ I give the tradition as I find it—not pretending to offer an explanation—excepting that the same word stands for eyes and fountains.