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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

Note 70 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Adab”; see vol. i. 132. It also implies mental discipline, the culture which leads to excellence, good manners and good morals; and it is sometimes synonymous with literary skill and scholarship. “Ilm al-Adab,” says Haji Khalfah (Lane’s Lex.), “is the science whereby man guards against error in the language of the Arabs spoken or written.”

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