[362]Meaning that she had been carried to the Westward of Meccah.
[363]Arab.'Zahrawiyah'which contains a kind of double entendre.F timah the Prophet's only daughter is entitled Al-Zahr the'bright-blooming'；and this is also an epithet of Zohrah the planet Venus.For Fatimah see vol.vi.145.Of her Mohammed said，'Love your daughters，for I too am a father of daughters'and，'Love them，they are the comforters，the dearlings.'The Lady appears in Moslem history a dreary young woman （died aet.28） who made this world，like Honorius，a hell in order to win a next-world heaven.Her titles are Zahr and Batāl （Pilgrimage ii.90） both signifying virgin.Burckhardt translates Zahr by'bright blooming'（the etymological sense）：
it denotes literally a girl who has _disibledevent=up and ready！
[377]I borrow the title from the Bresl.Edit.x.204.Mr.
Payne prefers'Ali Noureddin and the Frank King's Daughter.'Lane omits also this tale because it resembles Ali Shar and Zumurrud （vol.iv.187） and Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat （vol.iv.29）；'neither of which is among the text of the collection.'But he has unconsciously omitted one of the highest interest.Dr.Bacher （Germ.Orient.Soc.） finds the original in Charlemagne's daughter Emma and his secretary Eginhardt as given in Grimm's Deutsche Sagen.I shall note the points of resemblance as the tale proceeds.The correspondence with the King of France may be a garbled account of the letters which passed between Harun al-Rashid and Nicephorus，'the Roman dog.'