Note 91 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Of course the conversation drifts into matters sexual and intersexual: in a similar story, “Tawaddud,” the learned slave-girl, “hangs down her head for shame and confusion” (vol. v. 225); but the young Sayyid speaks out bravely as becomes a male masculant.