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

Note 525 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

[I read “al-Muhibbattu,” fem. of “Muhibb,” lover (in Tasawwuf particularly = lover of God), and take the “lam taku taslah” in the second verse for the 3rd person fem., translating: The loving maiden has come in obedience to the lover’s call, proudly trailing her skirts (“tajarru min al-Tíhi Azyála-há”), and she is meet, etc.—St.]

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