Note 390
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
Arab. "Shásh" (in Pers. urine) a light turband generally of muslin.
…ent and folded it; and, wrapping it up in a piece of waxed cloth, sewed it like a talisman between the inner and outer cloth of his skull-cap and wound his light turband [FN#390] round it. And he fell to weeping over his father and at parting with him, and he but a boy. Then Nur al-Din lapsed into a swoon, the forerunner of death; but presently recovering himself he said, "O Hasan, O my son, I will now bequeath to thee five la…
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