Note 123 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “’Ilm al-Hurúf,” not to be confounded with “the ’Ilm al-Jumal,” or “Hisáb Al-Jumal,” a notation by numerical values of the alphabet. See Lumsden’s Grammar of the Persian Language, i. 37.