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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 49 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

So in Tabari (vol. iii. 127) Al-Hajjáj sees a man of haughty mien (Abd al-Rahmán bin Abdullah), and exclaims, “Regarde comme il est orgueilleux: par Dieu, j’aurais envie de lui couper la tête!”

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