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

Note 158 — NIGHT ADVENTURE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE YOUTH MANJAB.[106]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

So even in our day Mustafà bin Ism’aíl who succeeded “General Khayru ’l-Dín” as Prime Minister to “His Highness Mohammed al-Sádik, Bey of Tunis,” began life as apprentice to a barber, became the varlet of an officer, rose to high dignity and received decorations from most of the European powers.

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