[FN#226] Wazir of the above. killed by al-Muntasir Billah A. H. 247 (= 861).
[FN#227] Easterns during purgation are most careful and deride the want of precaution in Europeans. They do not leave the house till all is passed off, and avoid baths, wine and women which they afterwards resume with double zest. Here "breaking the seal" is taking the girl's maidenhead.
[FN#228] Johannes, a Greek favoured by Al-Mutawakkil and other Abbaside Caliphs.
[FN#229] Lady of Shaykhs, elders in the faith and men of learning
[FN#230] = A.D. 1166.
[FN#231] Koran iv. 38. I have before noted what the advantages are.
[FN#232] Koran ii. 282, "of those whom ye shall choose for witnesses."
[FN#233] Koran iv. 175, "Whereas if there be two sisters, they inherit only two-thirds between them."
[FN#234] The sec
