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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 133 — MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Al-Hadi, immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid, called “Al-Atbik”: his upper lip was contracted and his father placed a slave over him when in childhood, with orders to say, “Musa! atbik!” (draw thy lips together) when he opened his mouth.

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