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Art. XVIII.—Were Zenobia and Zebbā'u, Identical?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

J. W. Redhouse
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The French translators of the “Meadowa of Gold and Mines of Gems,” by the Arabian traveller and writer Mes ūdiyy, who composed this book in A.H. 332 (A.D. 943), refer their readers, in their general index, from the name of Zebbā'u, which they have unaccountably transliterated as “Zibba,” to “Zenobie,” though they never once use this latter name in the eighteen pages (vol. iii. pp. 181–198) of the work devoted to the history of this princess. Neither have they said one word in their notes to that part of the volume to show how Zebbā'u may be identified with Zenobia. (But see the concluding passages to this paper on p. 596.)

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , October 1887 , pp. 583 - 597
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1887

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