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the Red Sea, Oxford, June, 1946, 606 scq. I have found it used in Jahanah of
Khawlan which has two crop seasons, Saif and Kharff - in which latter rains
fall.
32. ‘Alf b. al-Hasan ... al-Khazrajf, The Pearl Strings ... al-'Uqud
al-lu'lu'Tyah, edit. Muh. ‘Asal, Leydcn-London, 1914-18, iv-v, ii, 243, 313.
33. In Jizan one says madhrat, plur., madhdri, explained as waqt badhr
al-habb.
34. In the Jabal a calf of 116 to 2 years old is called tabV before being used for
ploughing (hirathah). One trains it to work (yi'assif-uh) and only then is the
male called thawr.
35. *Ajmah means qurash, beasts.
36. Op. cit., 103a.
37. Muhyi ‘1-Dfn al-Nawawf, K. al-Adhkar, Cairo, 1356 H., 399, on al­
ba kurah min a l-1 ha mar.
38. Sifah, op. cit., 198.
39. Ibid, 199.
40. Op. cit., 104a. For bread in Hadramawt of various cereals cf. Prose and
poetry . .. , 117, and also the first Maqamah on the contest between the cereals
and fruits.
41. Jamma, to become abundant and collect, of water.
42. Text, ‘and sesame’, but I have read it without the ‘and’; perhaps this
should be retained, and the ‘and’ before ‘cow-pea’ in the text omitted.
43. Usually the term dijr is used in South Arabia.
44. Subh al-a'sha, Cairo, 1913ff., v, 8-9, where the readings are to be
corrected.
45. Cf. my ‘Two sixteenth-century Arabian geographical works’, BSOAS,
London, 1958, xxi, ii, 262. Here it is asserted that only when Turanshah took-
Ta‘izz and his brother Saladin sent him a quantity of various kinds of fruits from
Syria (Sham) which he planted in Ta‘izz, did the latter become a veritable
Damascus for fruits and flowers — it seems implied that these were planted in
Tha‘abat - this about 570 H./l 174-5 A.D.
46. So corrected from Qalqashandfs Mahlah.
47. KhazrajT, op. cit., iv/ii, 377-82. For water led into Tha‘abat village and
the building of a wall around it, ibid., v/ii, 60-1, and for the father of the
author of the Bughyah, Mujahid, developing its gardens, ibid, v/ii, 125. Cf. ‘Abd
al-Baqf b. ‘Abd al-Majfd al-YamanT, Bahjat al-zaman, Cairo (?), 1965, 122, for
the castles and gardens of al-Ma‘qilf, and Qurrat al-'uyun, SOAS copy, 93a.
48. KhazrajT, v/ii, 59, 75.
49. Ibid., v/ii, 40-1.
50. Ibid., v/ii, 90, passim.
51. Ibid, v/ii, 142.
52. Cf. Qurrat al-'uyun, SOAS, 85b.
53. Op. cit., v/ii, 283 passim; Qurrat al-'uyun, Vienna, 72b, 89a, this latter in
the year 908 H./l502-03 A.D. Saryaqus, possibly Siryaqus, is a strange name in
South Arabia; it might be taken from a village near Cairo of the same name,
mentioned by Yaqut.
54. KhazrajT, v/ii, 13.