Note 77 — Chapter X

This is a work of the celebrated Abd-al rahmen Jámi; its whole title is: كتاب نفحات الانس من حضرات القدس Kitab-u-nafhát-i ’l uns-i, min hazarat-i ’l Kades, translated by Silvestre de Sacy, “les Haleines de la familiarité, provenant des personnages eminens en sainteté,” “the breathings of familiarity proceeding from personages eminent in sanctity.” Baron von Hammer rendered the title by: “Die Hauche der Menshheit,” “the Breathings of Mankind;” Nefhát being interpreted in the Dictionary, by “a breath of wind, a fragrant gate, perfume, (metaphorically for) good fame,” I prefered the version given in the text.