Note 115 — AL-ASMA’I AND THE THREE GIRLS OF BASSORAH.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The “Dakkah” or long wooden sofa, as opposed to the “mastabah” or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns. Here readers recite the Koran: Lane (M.E. chapt. iii.) sketches it in the “Interior of a Mosque.”