Note 132 — THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The ancient "Mustapha"=the Chosen (prophet, i.e. Mohammed), also titled Al-Mujtabá, the Accepted (Pilgrimage, ii., 309). "Murtazá"=the Elect, i.e. the Caliph Ali is the older "Mortada" or "Mortadi" of Ockley and his day, meaning "one pleasing to (or acceptable to) Allah." Still older writers corrupted it to "Mortis Ali" and readers supposed this to be the Caliph's name.