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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 2

Note 21 — HISTORY OF KHWAJAH HASAN AL-HABBAL.[21]

Richard Francis Burton translation

i.e. Master Hasan the Ropemaker. Galland writes, after European fashion, “Hassan,” for which see vol. i. 251; and for “Khwájah” vol. vi. 146. “Al-Habbál” was the cognomen of a learned “Háfiz” (= traditionist and Koran reader), Abú Ishák Ibrahim, in Ibn Khall. ii. 262; for another see iv. 410.

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