[FN#71] Arab. "Ruba'al-Khar á b" or Ruba'al-Kh á l í (empty quarter), the great central wilderness of Arabia covering some 50,000 square miles and still left white on our maps. (Pilgrimage, i 14.)
[FN#72] Pers. "Life King", women also assume the title of Shah.
[FN#73] Arab. "Mujauhar": the watery or wavy mark upon Eastern blades is called the "jauhar," lit.=jewel. The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.
[FN#74] Etymologically meaning tyrants or giants; and applied to great heathen conquerors like Nimrod and the mighty rulers of Syria, the Anakim, Giants and other peoples of Hebrew fable. The Ak á sirah are the Chosro ë s before noticed.
[FN#75] Arab. "Asker jarr á r" lit. "drawi
