Note 85 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The Convent of Abdun on the east bank of the Tigris opposite the Jezirah was so called from a statesman who caused it to be built. For a variant of these lines see Ibn Khallikan, vol. ii. 42; here we miss “the shady groves of Al-Matírah.”