Encountering Islam by Auchterlonie Paul.;Pitts Joseph;

Author:Auchterlonie, Paul.;Pitts, Joseph;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
ISBN: 9780957106062
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2012-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

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160 Moggarib: Arabic, Maghrib.

161 Emmir Hagge: Arabic, Amīr al-ḥajj.

162 Misseer: Arabic, Miṣr.

163 Sham: Arabic for Syria, understood in Pitts’s time to include Lebanon and other areas of the Levant.

164 Tartary: Central Asia.

165 Natolia: Anatolia or Asia Minor.

166 Canaan: modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan.

167 Hind: Arabic for India.

168 Curbaen Byram: Arabic/Turkish, Qurbān Bayram, in Arabic ‘Īd al-adḥā, “the one great sacrificial ritual in Islam, occurring during the daylight hours of the tenth of the month of Dhū al-ḥijjah as a part of the major pilgrimage” to Mecca (EI2).

169 Mr. Collier’s Dictionary: for more information on Collier and d’Avity and their claims, see Part I, Chapter 3, note 195.

170 late: recent.

171 charg’d with: filled with.

172 streighten: close ranks (as in an army).

173 Hagges: Arabic, colloquially ḥajjī, more properly ḥājj, an honorific title given to all those who had performed the ḥajj or pilgrimage to Mecca.

174 designs for: plans to go to.

175 Leghorn: now known as Livorno, a major port on the West coast of Italy.

176 Nilus: the River Nile.

177 Bingbeer Drake: modern Turkish, bin bir direk. This is possibly a reference to the mosque which stood on the site of the original St Mark’s Coptic Cathedral.

178 hood-wink’d: blindfolded.

179 Pompey’s Pillar, as Pitts rightly says fashioned from “porphyrian” (correctly, porphyry), a purplish-red igneous rock quarried in Egypt, is a Roman triumphal column erected in AD 297. It is in fact a monolith, despite Pitts’s incredulity on this score. It stands 26.46 m high with a diameter of 2.71 m at its base.

180 Roseet or Rosetta: Arabic, Rashīd.

181 Bahor el Nile: Arabic, Baḥr al-Nīl.

182 Shykes: modern Turkish, şayka (pl. şaykalar).

183 Boelock or Boulack: Arabic, Būlāq, the port on the Nile which served Cairo in pre-modern times.

184 cast away: wrecked.

185 out hard Wind: a strong onshore breeze.

186 Freshet: flood of water towards the sea.

187 Dimyot: Damietta; Arabic, Dimyāṭ.

188 damnifying: damaging. The annual Nile inundation occurred between June and September.

189 Kennels: surface drains.

190 Pitts is probably referring to the best-known Nilometer, on Rhoda island (Arabic, Jazīrat al-Rawḍah) in Cairo, built AD 861.

191 Sacca Cush: pelican, from the Arabic, saqqā’, water-carrier or pelican, and Turkish, kuş, a bird. In modern Turkish, however, saka kuş means a goldfinch.

192 Dotterel: a species of plover (Eudromias morinellusy).

193 Abraham: Arabic, Ibrāhīm. In the Qur’ān, Ibrāhīm and his son Ismā’īl are described as having laid the foundations of the Ka’bah, the cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca.

194 Copties: Copts, the native Christians of Egypt.

195 Buffleas: water buffaloes.

196 all down before: all down the front.

197 Poll of a Man’s Hat-case: crown of a man’s hat-box.

198 Shifts and Drawers: underclothing.

199 Isaiah, chapter 3, verse 16: “Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet”

200 Parrahs: modern Turkish, para, a small coin (now obsolete) which was worth one-fortieth of a piastre.

201 Collier: for more information on Collier and his dictionary, see Part I, Chapter 3, note 195.

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