Chapter 27

Tamarisk tree, i. 403 Tamattu, Al- (possession), the pilgrimage so called, ii. 281 Tanzimat, folly of, i. 286 Tarawih prayers, i. 80 Tarbush and fez, ii. 15 Tarik al-Ghabir, the road from Al-Madinah to Meccah, ii. 58 Tarikh Tabari, referred to, i. 347 Tarikah bin Himyariah, wife of Amru bin Amin, i. 348 Tariyak (Theriack) of Al-Irak, the counter-poison so called, ii. 108 Tarshish, i. 189 Tarwiyat, origin of the ceremony of, ii. 289, n. Tashrih, the Madani children’s bod[i]es marked with, ii. 13 Tashrit (gashing), the ceremony at Meccah so called, ii. 234, n. Taslim, to say “salam,” i. 329 Tatarif, or cartridges of the Badawin, ii. 116 Taun (the plague), never in Al-Hijaz, i. 384 Tawaf, or circumambulation of the House of Allah at Meccah, i. 305 Ceremonies of, at the Ka’abah, ii. 165 Its probable origin, 165, n. The Sunnat al-Tawaf, or practice of circumambulation, 170 Sketch of the ceremony of Tawaf, 286 Tawarah tribes of Arabs. See Arabs, and Sinaitic tribes Tawashi, the generic name of the eunuchs of the Mosque, i. 371, n. Taxation in Egypt, i. 112, n. Capitation tax levied on infidels, 233, n. No taxes paid by the Madani, ii. 6 Tayammum, the sand-bath, i. 261 Tayfur Agha, chief of the college of eunuchs at Al-Madinah, i. 371 Tayr Ababil, i. 384, n. Tayyarah, or “flying Caravan,” ii. 50 Tazkirah. See Passports Testification, the prayer so called, i. 318, n. Thamud tribe, of tradition, i. 221 Theology, Moslem, observations on, i. 105, et seq. Poverty of an Alim, or theologian, 131 Thieves in the Desert, i. 248 Thirst, difficulty with which it is borne by the Badawin, ii. 69 How to allay, 69, n. Tigritiya, the Abyssinian malady so called, ii. 175, n. [p.473] Timbak (tobacco), from Persia or Surat, i. 179 Tinder, Nubian and Indian, ii, 138, n. Tipu Sahib, his treatment of his French employes, i. 39, n. Tobacco of Egypt, i. 65 Latakia, 65, n. Suri (Syrian), Shami, or Suryani, 65, n. Tumbak, 66, n. Hummi, 66, n. The Shisha, or Egyptian water-pipe, 80 Pipes of the Badawin and Arab townspeople, 144, n. The old Turkish meerschaum, 144, n. Aversion of the barbarous tribes of Africa to the smell of, 194, n. The shisha (hooka) of Arabia, 296 Syrian tobacco generally used in Al-Madinah, 298 Its soothing influence, ii, 63 Waterpipes, 63 Salary of a pipe-bearer, 63, n. Smoking among the Badawin, 118 The shisha, or travelling pipe, 125 Instance of the Wahhabi hatred of, 129, 142 Tobba Abu Karb, i. 350, n. Tobba al-Asghar, his expedition to Al-Madinah, i. 350 And to Syria and Al-Irak, 350 Abolishes idolatry, 351 Tobba, “the Great,” or “the Chief,” i. 351, n. Tombs: that of Daniyal al-Nabi (Daniel the Prophet), i. 12 Of Sikandar al-Rumi, 12 Of Mohammed a1-Busiri, 12 Of Abu Abbas al-Andalusi, 12 Of the martyred grandsons of Mohammed, Hasan, and Husayn, 97, n. Of Kaid Bey and the other Mamluk Kings, 98 Peculiar form of the sepulchre now common in Al-Hijaz, Egypt, and the Red Sea, 155, n. The tomb of Abu Zulaymah, 199 Of Shaykh Hasan al-Marabit, on the Red Sea, 218 Distant view of the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Madinah, 286 Account of a visit to it, 304-342 The Lady Fatimah’s at Al-Madinah, 308, n., 327, 328 Exact place of the Prophet’s tomb, 322 The tombs of Abu Bakr and of Omar, 324 The future tomb of Sayyidna Isa, 326 Tombs of the father and mother of the Prophet, 351, n. Tomb of Mohammed, 359, 363 Attempted robbery of the tombs of Mohammed and of his two companions, 367 The tombs in the Hujrah visited by Al-Samanhudi, 368, n. The tomb of Aaron on Mount Ohod, 423 Hamzah’s tomb, 426 That of Abdullah bin Jaysh at Ohod, 428 Visit to the tombs of the saints of Al-Bakia, ii. 31, et seq. Tombs of Hagar and Ishmael at Meccah, 305 Burial-places of Adam, Abel, and Cain, 160, n. Tombs of celebrity at the cemetery of Meccah, 249, et seq. Eve’s tomb near Jeddah, 273 Tott, Inspector-General, i. 112, n. Trade and commerce, condition of, at Al-Madinah, ii. 8 The three vile trades of Moslems, 149, n. Trafalgar, Cape, i. 7 Remarks on the meaning of the word, 7, n. Travellers, idiosyncrasy of, 16 “Trees of Al-Madinah,” the celebrated, i. 286 Tripoli, i. 190 Tumar character, of Arabic, ii. 215 Tumbak tobacco, i. 66, n. Tunis, i. 190 Tur, the old Phœnician colony on the Red Sea, i. 201 Terrible stories about the Badawin of, 201 The modern town, 202 The inhabitants of, 202 The delicious dates of, 204 [p.474] Tur, Jabal (Mount Sinai), i. 202 Turki pomegranates of Al-Madinah, i. 405 Turks on the pilgrimage, i. 191 Turkish Irregular Cavalry in the Deserts of Arabia, 249 Imbecility of their rule in Arabia, 257 Delenda est marked by Fate upon the Ottoman empire, 259, n. Probable end of its authority in Al-Hijaz, 259 Douceurs given by them to the Arab shaykhs of Al-Hijaz, 266 Their pride in ignoring all points of Arab prejudices, 304 Their difficulties in Arabia, 359 One killed on the march by an Arab, ii. 127 Their dangerous position in Al-Hijaz, 151, n. Turkish pilgrims at Meccah, author’s acquaintance with, 171 Tussun Bey, defeat of, by the Badawin, i. 262 Concludes a peace with Abdullah the Wahhabi, i. 370 Tutty (Tutiya), used in Al-Hijaz for the cure of ulcers, i. 390

UHAYHAH, of the Aus tribe, i. 351, n. Ukab, the bird so called, ii. 62 Ukayl bin Abi Talib, brother of Ali, his tomb, ii. 38, 44 Ulcers (Nasur) common in Al-Hijaz, i. 390 Antiquity of the disease in Arabia, 390 Death of Am al-Kays, the warrior and poet, 390 Mandate of Mohammed Abu (see Mohammed), 390 The Hijaz “Nasur,” and the Yaman ulcer, the “Jurh al-Yamani,” 390, n. Popular treatment of, 390 Umar ibn Fariz, poems of, i. 107, n. Umbrella, the sign of royalty, ii. 150, n., 196 Umrah (the little pilgrimage), ii. 281 The ceremonies of, 241, 292 et seq. Its situation, 341 Urdu, or camp of soldiers in Al-Hijaz, i. 394, n. Urtah, or battalion of soldiers, i. 394, n. Usbu, or seven courses round the Ka’abah, ii. 167, n Ustuwanat al-Ashab, or the Companions’ column, at the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 326, n. Ustuwanat al-Mukhallak, or the perfumed pillar, 335 Ustuwanat al-Hannanah, or weeping pillar at the Prophet’s Mosque, 335 Ustuwanat al-Ayishah, or pillar of Ayishah, 335 Ustuwanat al-Kurah, or pillar of Lots, 335 Ustuwanat al-Muhajirin, or pillar of Fugitives, 335 Ustuwanat al-Abu Lubabah, or pillar of Lubabah or of repentance, 336 Ustuwanat al-Sarir, or pillar of the Cot, 336 Ustuwanat Ali, or column of Ali the fourth Caliph, 336 Ustuwanat al-Wufud, 336 Ustuwanat al-Tahajjud, where the Prophet passed the night in prayer, 336 Utaybah Badawin. Ferocity of, ii. 136, 144 Charged with drinking their enemies’ blood, 136 Their stoppage of the Damascus Caravan, 143 Dispersed by Sharif Zayd 144 Utbah bin Abi Wakkas, the infidel, i. 430 Utum, or square, flat roofed, stone castles in Arabia, i. 347

VALLEYS in Arabia, longitudinal, transversal, and diagonal, i. 252 Vasco de Gama, his voyage to Calicut, i. 187, n. Vegetables of the plain of Al-Madinah, i. 404 Vena, common at Yambu’, i. 389 Treatment of, 389 [p.475] Venus, worship of, by the Hukama, ii. 162 Verdigris used in Arabia for the cure of ulcers, i. 390 Vertomannus Ludovicus, his pilgrimages to Meccah and to Al-Madinah, ii. 333, et seq. Victims, ceremonies of the Day of, ii. 202, et seq. Villages frequently changing their names, i. 245 Vincent on the Moors of Africa, i. 187, n. Vine of Al-Madinah, ii. 404 Visions in the East, ii. 184, n. Visits of ceremony after the Ramazan, i. 116 Of the middle classes in Egypt, 135, n. After a journey, 190 Volcanoes, traces of extinct, near Al-Madinah, ii. 61

WADY, the Arabian, i. 150, n. The Wady al-Ward (the Vale of Flowers), 150 Wady, al-Kura, town of, founded by the Jews, i. 347 The route from Al-Madinah to Meccah so called, ii. 58 Wady al-Subu, town of, founded by the Jews, i. 347 Wady, the Masjid al-, ii. 49 Wahhabis, aversion of to tobacco, i. 194, n. Ruinous effect of the wars between them, and the Egyptians, 254, n. Their defeat of Tussun Bey and 8000 Turks, 262 Their tenets, 306 Their opposition to Ali Bey, 306, n. Their rejection of the doctrine of the Prophet’s intercession, 318, n. Their dislike to onions, 357, n. And of Turkish rule in Al-Hijaz, 360 Their siege of Al-Madinah, 369 Defeated by Mohammed Ali at the battle of Bissel, ii. 89, n. Instance of their hatred of tobacco, 129, 142 Description of their march on the pilgrimage, 142 Their bravery, 143 Their appearance at the ceremonies of the day of Arafat, 193, n. Their destruction of the Chapel on Arafat, 193, n. Note on the ceremonies of the Wahhabi pilgrimage, 197, n. Their unsuccessful attack on Jeddah, 265, n. Wahshi, the slave, slays Hamzah, i. 433 Wahshi, Al-, the date so called, i. 401 Wahy, or Inspiration brought by the Archangel Gabriel from heaven, i. 333. n. Wa’iz in the Mosque, i. l00 Wakalah, or inn of Egypt, description of, i. 41 The Wakalah Khan Khalil of Cairo, 42 The Wakalah Jamaliyah, 42 Those of Al-Madinah, 392 The Wakalah Bab Salam, 392 The Wakalah Jabarti, 392 The, of Jeddah, ii. 266 Wakf, “bequeathed,” written in books, i. 340 Bought up by Mohammed Ali Pasha, 359, n. Abolished in Turkey, 359, n. Established by the Sultan Kaid Bey, 368 Wakil (or substitute), in pilgrimage, ii. 243 Wakin, Al-, or Al-Zahrah, the Harrah so called, i. 421, n. Walid, Al-,the Caliph, i. 327, n. Inventor of the mihrab and minaret, 361, n. His magnificent buildings at Al-Madinah, 364 Visits the Mosque in state, 366 Mosques built by him at Al-Madinah, ii. 48 Walis (holy men), of Alexandria, i. 12 [p.476] Wallin, Dr. George, of Finland, his visit to Meccah, i. 5, n. His death, 5, n. His Eastern name, Wali al-Din, 5, n. His remarks on the Arab tribes referred to, 145, n. His admiration of Badawi life, ii. 97 Walls of Al-Madinah, i. 391 “War of the Meal-sacks,” i. 275, n. War-dance (Arzah) of the Arabs, i. 419 Wardan and the Wardanenses, i. 30, n. Warkan, Jabal, one of the mountains of Paradise, i. 270, n. Wasitah, Al-. See Hamra, Al-, i. 253 Watches worn in Arabia, i. 166 Water-bags in the East, i. 24, 125 Value of water in the Desert, 149 Carried across the Desert to Suez, 158 Water-courses (Misyal) of Arabia, 250, 254 The water found in the Deserts of Arabia, 254 “Light” water, 338 Oriental curiosity respecting, 338 Manner of providing, at Al-Madinah, 381 Music of the water-wheels, 400 Quantity of, in the palm-gardens of Al-Madinah, 403 Purity of, throughout Al-Hijaz, ii. 194 Water-spout (Myzab) of the Ka’abah, ii. 304 Weapons of the Badawin, ii. 106 Weeping-pillar in Mohammed's Mosque, i. 335, 362, n. Weights, the, of Al-Madinah, i. 402, n. Welcome, the Oriental cry of, (Tahlil, or Ziralit), ii. 159 Well, Moses’, at Sinai, i. 204 Ancient wells at Aden, 204, n. Wells of the Indians in Arabia, i. 274, n. The Bir al-Aris at Kuba, 412 The pilgrim’s “Kayf” on the brink of, 412 Former and present number of wells of Al-Kuba, 414 The Saba Abar, or seven wells, 414 The Bir al-Nabi, 414, n. The Bir al-Ghurbal, 414, n. The Bir al-Fukayyir, 414, n. The Bir al-Ghars, 414, n. The Bir Rumah, or Kalib Mazni, 414, n. The Bir Buza’at, 414, n. The Bir Busat, 414, n. The Bir Bayruha, 414, n. The Bir Ihn, 415, n. The three wells of the Caliph Harun at Al-Ghadir, ii. 134 Wellington, Duke of, his remark on the means of preserving health in India, i. 264, n. West, Mr., sub-vice-consul at Suez, his kindness to the pilgrim, i. 169 Wijh Harbour, on the Red Sea, i. 214 The town, 215 Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his observations on Egyptian passports, i. 18 Wind, the Samum, i. 149 The Sarsar, 151, n. The “poison-wind,” 265, n. The eastern wintry winds of Al-Madinah, 382 Wishah, the style of dress so called, ii. 139 Wives of the Prophet, tombs of, ii. 38 His fifteen wives, 38 Wolf’s tail (Dum i Gurg), the grey dawn, i. 154 Women, shrill cries of joy with which Arab women receive their husbands after returning from a journey, i. 357, ii. 154 Flirtation and love-making at festivals, i. 116 The public amusements allowed to Oriental women, 118 The death-wail, 118 An Armenian marriage, 123 Faults of Moslem ladies’ dressing, 123, n. Condition of, in Egypt, at the present day, 175 The opprobrious term Misriyah, 175 Dress of the women of Yambu’, 229 The face-veil, 229 The lisam of Constantinople, [p.477] 229, n. Retired habits of the women at Al-Madinah, 297 Soft and delicate voices of the Somali women, 297 The Gynæconitis of Arab women, 298 Ablutions necessary after touching the skin of a strange woman, 298, n. A Persian lady’s contempt for boys, 303 The Bab al-Nisa, or women’s gate at Al-Madinah, 308 Disgrace of making a Moslemah expose her face, 365, n. The women of the farmer race of Arabs, 406 Tafl, or bole earth, eaten by them, 415 Women devotees at the Harim, 434 Women sometimes not allowed to join a congregation in Al-Islam, 434, n. Dress and customs of the Indian women settled at At-Madinah, ii. 6 Value of black slave-girls, 12 Price of a Jariyah Bayza, or white slave-girl, 13 Dress of the women of Al-Madinah, 15, 16 Their mourning dress, 16 Decency of the women of Al-Madinah, 19 Their pleasures, 20 Their bad language, 20 Arab marriages, 22, et seq. Unwillingness to name the wife among the Arabs, 84 And in other countries, 84, n. Uncomeliness of the women of Al-Hijaz, 85 Softening influences of the social position of the women among the Badawin, 90 Polygamy and monogamy compared, 91, n. The daughters of a higher clan of Arabs not allowed to marry into a lower, 92 Heroism of women, 94 The Arab oath, “by the honour of my women,” 94 Marriage ceremonies of the Badawin, 111 Frequency of divorces among them, 111 Dress of the Badawin women of Al-Hijaz, 116 Unchastity of the women of the Hitman tribe of Arabs, 121 Ejaculations of women when in danger of exposing their faces, 134, n. Strange dress of pilgrim women, 141 Wahhabi women on the pilgrimage, 142 Place for the female pilgrims in the Ka’abah, 309 The Kabirah, or mistress of a house, 160 How directed to perform the Sai, 288 Moslem prayers for the souls of women, 293 Superstitious rite on behalf of women at Arafat, 189 Manner of addressing respectable Moslem women, 190, n. An adventure with a fair Meccan, 197-199 The slave market of Meccah, 252 Appearance of the slaves, 252 “Wormwood of Pontus,” i. 155 Wounds, Badawin method of treating, i. 271, n., 389 Writing, Oriental, remarks on, i. 103 Skilful penmanship but little valued at the present day, 103, n. The Turkish ornamental character called “Suls,” 103, n. The Persian character, 103, n. The Egyptian and Arab coarse and clumsy hand, 104, n. The Mirza Sanglakh, 104, n. Writing and drawing generally disliked by Arabs, 240 Writing on noted spots, the practice both classical and Oriental, 432 Wuzu (the lesser ablution), i. 6, 77, 230 Wukuf, or standing upon Mount Arafat, Arab legend respecting, ii. 289, n. The pilgrim rites of, 289

Y.S., the chapter of the Koran, i. 366, n., 429 Yaman, Al-, tamarinds from, i. 180 Mountains of, 265, n. Coffee of, 290, n. The birthplace of the Aus and Kharaj, 348 Sufferings of the people of, from ulcers, 390 Mandate of the conqueror Mohammed Abu. See Mohammed, 390 Demoralisation of the Arabs of, ii. 107 Former horse trade of, 195, n. [p.478] Yambu’, tribes inhabiting the deserts about, i. 145 Yambu’ al-Bahr (or Yambu’ of the Sea), 225 The Iambia of Ptolemy, 225 The Sharif of Yambu’, 226 Description of the town, 226 Varieties of the population at, 228 An evening party at, 232 Strength of the walls and turrets of, 242 Attacked by Sa’ud the Wahhabi, 242 Jews settled in, 347, n. Diseases of, 389 Population of, 393, n. Yanbua of the palm grounds, i. 225 Yarab bin Kahtan bin Shalik bin Arkfakhshad bin Sam bin Nuh, descendants of, i. 348 Yasir bin Akhtah, plots against Mohammed, i. 358 Yasrib (now Al-Madinah), settled by fugitive Jews, i. 347 Yaum al-Tarwiyah, ii. 289 Description of, 178 Yaum al-Nahr (the day of throat-cutting), 202, 290 Yazid, son of the Caliph Mu’awiyah and his Badawi wife Maysunah, ii. 191, n. His contempt for his father, 191, n. Cursed by the disciples of the Shafe’i school, ii. 37 Yorke, Colonel P., i. 1 Yusuf, the Jewish “Lord of the Pit,” ii. 78, n.

ZA’ABUT, i. 17, n. Zabit, or Egyptian police magistrate, i. 19 Scenes before, 119 The “Pasha of the Night,” 121 Zafar, the Masjid Benu, also called Masjid al-Baghlah, ii. 45 Zafaran Point, i. 196, n. Zaghritah, or cry of welcome, ii. 159 Zahra, or “bright blooming Fatimah,” i. 327, n. Zahrah, Al-, or Al-Wakin, the Harrah so called, i. 421, n. “Zairs,” visitors to the sepulchre of the Prophet, i. 305, n. Dress and perfumes of the Zairs, 309, n. Zakariya al-Ansari, his theological work. i. 106, n. Zamakhshari, Al-, his grammatical adventures, ii. 98, n. Zananire, Antun, visit to his harim, i. 122 Zarb al-Mandal, the magical science so called in Egypt, i. 388, n. Zaribah, Al-, description of the plain of, ii. 138 Zarka, of Yamamah, story of, referred to, i. 181, n. Zat al-Rika’a, the expedition so called, i. 155, n. Zat al-Salasil (the “Affair of Chains”), ii. 89, n. Zat Nakhl, or “place of palm trees” (Al-Madinah), i. 346 Zawiyah, or oratory, of Mohammed al-Samman, i. 426 Zawwar, or visitors to the tomb of the Prophet, i. 329, n. Zayd, Sharif, his bravery, ii. 144 Disperses the Utaybah robbers, 144 Zaydi sect, ii. 307, n. Zayn al-Abidin, prayers for, i. 328 Tomb of, ii. 40 Zaynab, wife of the Prophet, i. 365, n. Zemzem, the holy well of the Mosque of the Prophet, i. 6, 70, 331 Its supposed subterranean connection with the great Zemzem at Meccah, 338 Rows of jars of the water at the Mosque of Meccah, ii. 297 Description of the building enclosing the well, 309 The Daurak, or earthen jars, for cooling the water, 310, n. Doubtful origin of the word, 162 Esteem in which the water is held, 163 Its qualities, 163 How transmitted to distant regions, 163 Superstitions respecting it, 164 [p.479] Zemzemi, or dispenser of the water of the holy well at Meccah, ii. 125 Ali bin Ya Sin, the zemzemi, 125 Zemzemiyah, or goat-skin water-bag, i. 24 Zikrs, or Darwaysh forms of worship, in Egypt, i. 86 Ziyad bin Abihi, his destruction of robbery in Basrah, i. 258, n. Ziyafah, Bab al-, or gate of hospitality, of Al-Madinah, i. 391 Ziyarat, or visitation, of the Prophet’s Mosque, i. 305, 319 Distinction between Ziyarat and the Hajj Pilgrimage, 305 Where the ceremony begins, 307, n. How regarded by the Maliki school, 311, n. The visitation to Kuba on the 17th Ramazan, 408, n. Ziyarat al-Wida’a, or “Farewell Visitation,” ii. 55 The ceremony of the visit to the Prophet’s tomb, 292 “Ziyaratak,” or “blessed be thy visitation,” the benediction, i. 331 Zubaydah Khatun, wife of Harun al-Rashid, ii. 58 Her celebrated Pilgrimage, 136, n. Zu’l Halifah, the Mosque, i. 279, n. Also called the “Mosque of the tree,” 279, n., 364 Its distance from Al-Madinah, 379 Zuyud schismatics, ii. 6