Note 37 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)
Richard Francis Burton translation
I have noted that this is the primitive attire of Eastern man in all hot climates, and that it still holds its ground in that grand survival of heathenry, the Meccan Pilgrimage. In Galland the four strips are of taffetas jaune, the Hind. “Taftí.”