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Art. VI.—The Story of Umm Harám

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Claude Delaval Cobham
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About four miles from Larnaca, in Cyprus, on the western shore of thegreat salt lake from which the town. (Túzla) takes its Turkish name, standsthe Khálat-i-Sulṭán Tekyé, a much - frequented Moslem shrine. The situation is picturesque. The noble outline of the mountain of the Holy Cross (Santa Croce or Stavro Vouni) bounds the view on the west; andthe domes and minaret, embowered in. garden and grove, are not without grace, especially when seen reflected in the still waters of the lake. The shrine is held in great veneration by Moslems of every country; vessels carrying the Ottoman flag salute it as they pass, and the gardens are a favourite place of resort on Musalmán holidays. The whole is dedicated to a lady known as Umm Ḥarámbint Milḥán, whose body lies in this holy place.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1897 , pp. 81 - 101
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1897

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page 81 note 1 Cf. p. 100 infra, 1. 11, and n. 1 ad calc.

page 87 note 1 i.e. Constantinople.

page 88 note 1 i.e. al-Imám al-Ḥáfidh Shamsu'd-Dín Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Dhahabí († a.h. 748 = a.d. 1347). See Hájí Khalfa, vol. i, pp. 288, 291, etc.

page 88 note 2 Numerous works bear this title. See Hájí Khalfa, vol. ii, pp. 550–560.

page 88 note 3 Hájí Khalfa, vol. i, p. 323, No. 810.

page 88 note 4 i.e. Núru'd-Dín Abu'l-Ḥasan Alí b. Sulṭán Muḥammad al-Qárí al-Makkí al-Hiraví († a.h. 1014 = a.d. 1605–6). See Rieu's, Arabic Supplement, p. 82Google Scholar.

page 88 note 5 A quarter of Medina. See Beládhurí, pp. 2–5.

page 91 note 1 See Ibn Quteyha, p. 159.

page 92 note 1 Qur'án, lvii, 21.

page 94 note 1 MS. .

page 94 note 2 MS. throughout.

page 94 note 3 MS. .

page 96 note 1 MS. .

page 100 note 1 Sic MS. for (Ar. = maternal aunt).

page 101 note 1 The last two lines, including the date, occuronly in a transcript made from the original MS. for the printer by the translator's instructions.