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

Note 328
Tale of the Portress.

i.e. Settled by the Koran.

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…t of his day. I abode with him a year when he also died, and my share of his property amounted to eighty thousand dinars in gold according to the holy law of inheritance.[FN#328] Thus I became passing rich and my reputation spread far and wide, for I had made me ten changes of raiment, each worth a thousand dinars One day as I was sitting at home, behold, there came in to me an old woman[FN#329] with lantern jaws and cheeks su…

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