Note 426 — CALIPH AL-MUTAWAKKIL AND HIS CONCUBINE MAHBUBAH.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Arab. “Muwallad” (fem. “Muwalladah”); a rearling, a slave born in a Moslem land. The numbers may appear exaggerated, but even the petty King of Ashanti had, till the last war, 3333 “wives.”