The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Note 91 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Rub’a al-Kharáb” in Ibn al-Wardi Central Africa south of the Nile-sources, one of the richest regions in the world. Here it prob. alludes to the Rub’a al-Khálí or Great Arabian Desert: for which see Night dclxxvi. In rhetoric it is opposed to the “Rub’a Maskún,” or populated fourth of the world, the rest being held to be ocean.

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