Note 464 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This is the doctrine of the universal East; and it is true concerning wives and widows, not girls when innocent or rather ignorant. According to Western ideas Kamar al-Zaman was a young scoundrel of the darkest dye whose only excuse were his age, his inexperience and his passions.