Note 359 — ABU AL-HASAN OF KHORASAN.[346]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In sign of honour. The threshold is important amongst Moslems: in one of the Mameluke Soldans’ sepulchres near Cairo I found a granite slab bearing the “cartouche” (shield) of Khufu (Cheops) with the four hieroglyphs hardly effaced.