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XXVII. Account of an ancient Arabic Grave-Stone, found at Dhalac-el Kibeer, near Massowah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1830

References

page 573 note * Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 3, 4, 5, and 6, by George Viscount Valentia. London, 1809. 3 vols. 4to.

page 576 note * I am indebted for this information to Dr. Mac Culloch, so well known for his profound acquaintance with geology.

page 577 note * My friend Mirza Ibrahim of Shiraz, now assistant professor at Haileybury College, whom I consulted on this expression, suggests that hamdan lillah, may have been intended; a form which he says is used bain al aráb (among the wandering Arabs).

page 579 note * Sale, , Koran, , Vol. I., p. 44, ed. 1821.Google Scholar

page 579 note † Saturday.

page 579 note ‡ According to the Hijra, and corresponding to the 6th July 1047, A.D.