Note 51 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]

“Yathrib,” the classical name Ἰατρίππα, one of the multifarious titles of what is called in full “Madínat al-Nabi,” City of the Prophet, and vulgarly, Al-Madinah, the City. “Tayyibah,” = the good, sweet, or lawful: “Al Munawwarah” = the enlightened, i.e. by the light of The Faith and the column of (odylic) flame supposed to be based upon the Prophet’s tomb. For more, see my Pilgrimage, ii. 162. I may note how ridiculously the story-teller displays ignorance in Al-Hajjaj, who knew the Moslem’s Holy Land by heart.