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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 162 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

A quotation from Al-Farazdat who had quarrelled with his wife Al-Howár (see the tale in Ibn Khallikan, i. 521), hence “the naked intercessor” became proverbial for one who cannot be withstood.

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