“I commit him to thy charge under God,” 184.
“If his friend the Devil be overstrong for thee, flee him rather than
be slain,” 202.
If my hand were changed = if my hand had lost its cunning, 78.
“I have not any eye that can look at him” = “I cannot bear to see him,”
110.
Ihramat li al-Salát = she pronounced the formula of Intention (Hiyat)
(_tr._ “the Prohibition”), 94.
Iklím = clime, 3.
’Iláj (Al-) = insertion (_tr._ “horizontal refreshment”), 185.
Imam = Antistes or fugleman at prayer who leads off the orisons, 101.
Inscriptions on metal trays sold to Europeans (also on table-cloths),
87.
Iraks (two) = Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and ’Ajami (Western Persia), 191.
’Irk = vein (of our eye) _equiv. to_ “the apple of the eye,” 144.
Irregular use of inn, perpetuated in some monster hotels throughout
Europe, 20.
Irtiyád = a place where the urine spray may not defile the dress (_tr._
“a place to make water”), 13.
Isaac of Mosul, the greatest of Arab Musicians, 70.