The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 364
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

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Arab. "Izá," i.e. the visits of condolence and so forth which are long and terribly wearisome in the Moslem East.

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… for ye shall stand in your father's stead and be joint Ministers of Egypt." At this they rejoiced and kissed the ground before him and performed the ceremonial mourning [FN#364] for their father during a full month; after which time they entered upon the Wazirate, and the power passed into their hands as it had been in the hands of their father, each doing duty for a week at a time. They lived under the same roof and their wo…

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Note 364TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 364
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.