The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night/El Melik en Nasir and the Three Masters of Police
EL MELIK EN NASIR AND THE THREE MASTERS OF POLICE.
El Melik en Nasir[1] once sent for the chiefs of the police of New Cairo, Boulac and Old Cairo and said to them, ‘I wish each of you to tell me the most remarkable thing that hath befallen him during his term of office.’ Night cccxliii.‘We hear and obey,’ answered they. Then said the chief of the police of New Cairo, ‘O our lord the Sultan, the most remarkable thing that befell me, during my term of office, was on this wise:
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Then rose the chief of the Boulac police and said, ‘As for me, O our lord the Sultan, the most remarkable thing that befell me, during my term of office, was as follows:
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Then rose the chief of the police of Old Cairo and said, ‘O our lord the Sultan, the most remarkable thing that befell me, during my term of office, was on this wise:
- ↑ Title of Saladin (Selaheddin) and several other Eyoubite Sultans of Egypt and Syria. It is equivalent to our “Defender of the Faith.”
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