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_{page 572 note 3} My notes for 1954 mention a procession round Lahej town for the saint. There were three bayāriq with bells. The Manṣab belonged to the aboriginal racial group known as the Ḥijrīs. The mikrīb is outside Lahej and is attended bywho would, for example, fall into a well in their state of ecstasy if they were not restrained. Women attend this festival as well as men. This ziyārah is specially favoured by Aden Indians, Muslims or Hindus, both men and women. Al-Nahdah (Aden, 21 12 1951), III, CV, p. 7, remarked folkdances there, men andGoogle Scholar

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_{page 572 note 5} Tāj al-'arūs, II, 343.Google Scholar

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_{page 573 note 4} Microfilm in SOAS, p. 132. It is said that this vast work is about to be printed in Singapore in a somewhat revised form.