Note 7 — Chapter VII

Thomas Erpenius, the translator of Elmacin, calls her Thegjazis (Hist. Saracenica, p. 19); her true name was Sijah, the daughter of Haret, of the tribe of the Tamimites, or Taalabites, according to Elmacin (loco citato). She declared herself a prophetess, and gained ascendancy in the country of Bahrein, along the south-western shores of the Persian gulf, and in almost the whole tract between Mecca and Bassora. She offered herself as wife to the new prophet, in Yamáma, who married her, but she soon abandoned him.—(See Abulfeda, vol. I. pp. 208, 209.)