al-hajjaj's

Updated: May 12, 2025

So she took the damsel by guile and, carrying her to Al-Hajjaj's palace, told him of her coming, after placing her in a lonely chamber; whereupon he went in to her and, looking upon her, saw her to be the loveliest of the people of the day, never had he beheld her like.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04