Variant Spellings
Numbers in brackets refer to the figure on which the variant spelling appears. The spelling following the colon is the one used in this book.
ʿAdan [6]: Aden
Aqabeh [12]: Aqaba
Bijaya [9]: Bejaïa
Buraida [16]: Burayda
Cyrenaica [9]: eastern Libya
Dhu l-Hulaifa [10]: Dhu al-Halifah
Dimashk [6]: Damascus
Esfahan [12]: Isfahan
Fatimah [1, 2], Fat’mah [4]: Fatima
Ghazza [4, 6]: Gaza
Hail [16]: Ha’il
Hejaz [4, 7]: Hijaz
Jauf [16]: al-Jawf
Jebel Abu Qubes [4]: Abu Qubays
Jedda [12, 13], Jeddah [4], Jiddah [1, 2]: Jidda
al-Kahira [6]: Cairo
Khorasan [7]: Khurasan
Maʿabdah [4]: Ma’abida
Makkah [1, 2], Mekka [4]: Mecca
Madrasah [4]: madrasa
el-Merwa [4]: Marwa
mu’addhin [4]: muezzin
Nimira [3]: Namira
Qadhi [4]: Qadi
Sawakin [6]: Suwakin
esh-Shebeka [4]: al-Shubayka
sheik [4]: shaykh
sherif [4]: sharif
Ta’ef [7], Taif [4]: Taʾif
Tripolitania [9]: western Libya
Yanboʿ [12, 13]: Yanbu