[4] Koran, Qur’an.

[5] ’They who swallow down usury shall arise in the resurrection only as
    he ariseth whom Satan hath infected by his touch’ (Koran, ii.
    276).  But this is rather theory than practice, and many ingenious
    methods are adopted to avoid the prohibition.

[6] Begam, feminine of Beg, ‘lord’, used to denote a Sayyid lady, like
    Khanam among Pathans.

[7] Here, as elsewhere, zenanah, zananah, Persian zan, ‘woman’.

[8] This is incorrect.  The Koran has been translated into various
    languages, but the translation is always interlineary with the
    original text.  In Central Asia the Musalman conquerors allowed the
    Koran to be recited in Persian, instead of Arabic, in order that it
    might be intelligible to all (Arnold, The Preaching of Islam, 183).

[9] Jali.

[10] Kurti, a loose, long-sleeved jacket of muslin or net, among rich
    women embroidered on the neck and shoulders with gold, and draped down
    to the ankles in full, loose folds.  It is made of red or other
    light-coloured fabrics for girls and married women; dark blue, bronze,
    or white for old ladies; bronze or black for widows.

[11] Khan, ‘lord’, ‘prince’, specially applied to persons of Mughal
    or Pathan descent.

[12] Bahadur, ‘champion’, a Mongol term; see Yule,
     Hobson-Jobson[2], 48 ff.

[13] Nawab, ‘a deputy, delegate’:  the Anglo-Indian Nabob (ibid.,
    610 ff.).

[14] Muharram, ‘that which is forbidden’, the first month of the
    Musalman year, the first ten days of which are occupied with this
    mourning festival.

[15] By his wife Ja’dah, who was suborned to commit the deed by Yazid.

[16] Yazid, son of Mu’awiyah, the second Caliph of the house of
    Umaiyah, who reigned from A.D. 679 to 683.  Gibbon (Decline and Fall,
    ed.  W. Smith, vi. 278) calls him ‘a feeble and dissolute youth’.

[17] Kerbala, Karbala, a city of Iraq, 50 miles south-west of Baghdad,
    and about 6 miles from the Euphrates.

[18] Syria.

[19] Sunni, Ahlu’s-Sunnah, ‘one of the Path’, a traditionalist.  The
    Sunnis accept the first four Caliphs, Abu Bakr, ’Umar, ’Usman,
    ’Ali, as the rightful successors of Muhammad, and follow the six
    authentic books of the traditions.  The Shi’ahs, ‘followers’ of
    ’Ali, maintain that he was the first legitimate Imam or Caliph,
    i.e. successor of the Prophet.  For a full account of the martyrdom of
    Husain see Simon Ockley, History of the Saracens (1848), 287 ff.;
    Sir L. Pelly, The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain (1879), Preface,
    v ff.

[20] Imam.

[21] Muslim.