Note 636 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
David Shea translation
This word means “the commander in chief of the Egyptian troops;” his name was Bedr al Jemalí.—(See, respecting him, Les Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l’Egypte, par M. Etienne Quatremère, t. II. p. 420 et seq., note of Silvestre de Sacy.)