Note 325 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Amongst the Jews the Arab Salám becomes “Shalúm” and a Jewess would certainly not address this ceremonial greeting to a Christian. But Eastern story-tellers care little for these minutiæ; and the “Adornment of Qualities,” was not by birth a Jewess as the sequel will show.