EL ABBAS AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF BAGHDAD.[1]
There was once, of old days and in bygone ages and times, in the city of Baghdad, the Abode of Peace, a king mighty of estate, lord of understanding and beneficence and liberality and generosity, and he was strong of sultanate and endowed with might and majesty and magnificence. His name was Ins ben Cais ben Rebiya es Sheibani,[2] and when he took horse, there rode unto him [warriors] from the farthest parts of the two Iraks.[3] God the Most High decreed that he should take to wife a woman hight Afifeh, daughter of Ased es Sundusi, who was endowed with beauty and grace and brightness and perfection and justness of shape and
- ↑ Breslau Text, vol. xii. pp. 116–237, Nights dcccclxvi–dcccclxxix.
- ↑ i.e. A member of the tribe of Sheiban. No such King of Baghdad (which was not founded till the eighth century) as Ins ben Cais is, I believe, known to history.
- ↑ The cities and provinces of Bassora and Cufa are generally known as “The Two Iraks”; but the name is here in all probability used in its wider meaning of Irak Arabi (Chaldæa) and Irak Farsi (Persian Irak).
