Note 169 — ISHAK OF MOSUL AND HIS MISTRESS AND THE DEVIL.[168]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Third Abbaside, A. H. 158–169 (= 775–785), and father of Harun Al-Rashid. He is known chiefly for his eccentricities, such as cutting the throats of all his carrier-pigeons, making a man dine off marrow and sugar and having snow sent to him at Meccah, a distance of 700 miles.