Lane’s _Thousand and ārNāOne Nights_, Introd. p. 27.—See a more just estimate of women, cited from the _Mahābharata_, p. 139 of the present volume.
Dr Jonathan Scott: Notes to vol. vi. of his edition of the _Arabian Nights_.
The 50th Night of the India Office MS. No. 2573; and the 35th tale of Muhammad Kaderi’s abridgment. Gerrans’ English translation, 1792, comprises barely one-fifth of the Tales, only the first volume of it having been published: he probably did not meet with sufficient encouragement to complete his work.
See Lane’s _Thousand and One Nights_, Introduction, note 21, ch. iii, note 14; Kur’ān ii, 96.
It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that Muhammad did not profess to introduce a new religion, but simply to restore the original and only true faith, which was held and taught by Abraham, David, Solomon, and the other great prophets.
See Dr Weil’s interesting little work, entitled, _The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud_, where also will be found the curious legend of how the demon Sakhr, above mentioned, by obtaining possession of Solomon’s magical signet, personated the great Hebrew King, and of the wonderful recovery of the seal-ring, and Solomon’s restoration to his kingdom.
Sir Gore Ouseley’s _Biographical Notices of Persian Poets_.
_Arabian Nights’ Entertainments_, edited by Jonathan Scott. 6 vols, 8vo. London, 1811. Vol. vi, _Notes_.
See Lane’s _Modern Egyptians_.—In my _Arabian Poetry for English Readers_ is a translation (the first that has appeared in English) of the famous Burda-Poem of El-Busīrī, contributed by Mr J. W. Redhouse, with Preface and Notes.
Called _El-Fātiha_; according to Sale’s translation, it is as follows:
PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures; the most merciful, the King of the Day of Judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray.
_The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night._ Translated by Henry Torrens. Calcutta: 1838. Vol. I. Notes.—This excellent translation comprises only the first 50 Nights, and it is much to be regretted that Torrens did not live to complete a task so well begun.