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

Note 212 — THE LOVES OF ABU ISA AND KURRAT AL-AYN.

Richard Francis Burton translation

One of the Wazirs of Al-Maamun; Kurrat al-Ayn = “coolness (i.e. delight) of the eyes.” Ali bin Hishám surnamed Abu ‘l-Hasan, was prefect of Baghdad under the same reign.

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