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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1

Note 107 — ALAEDDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Munáfik” for whose true sense, “an infidel who pretendeth to believe in Al-Islam,” see vol. vi. p. 207. Here the epithet comes last being the climax of abuse, because the lowest of the seven hells (vol. viii. 111) was created for “hypocrites,” i.e. those who feign to be Moslems when they are Miscreants.

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