Note 41 — RUINED MAN OF BAGHDAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
A town of Irák Arabi (Mesopotamia) between Baghdad and Bassorah built upon the Tigris and founded by Al-Hajjaj: it is so called because the “Middle” or half-way town between Basrah and Kufah. To this place were applied the famous lines:—
“In good sooth a right noble race are they;
Whose men “yea” can’t say nor their women “nay.”