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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1

Note 97 — THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. "Shább" (Lat. juvenis) between puberty and forty or according to some fifty; when the patient becomes a "Rajul ikhtiyár" (man of free will) politely termed, and then a Shaykh or Shaybah (grey-beard, oldster).

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