NOUROUJNIHAR 
 
 
most intimate with his majesty, who also 
bestowed on him so plentiful a fortune, 
that he lived with the " beautiful Persian" 
in affluence all the rest of his life.-Ara- 
bian Nights (" Nouredeen and the Beauti- 
ful Persian "). 
 
  Nour'eddin' All, younger son of the 
vizier of Egypt. "He was possessed of 
as much merit as can fall to the lot of 
man." Having quarrelled with his elder 
brother, he travelled to Baso'ra, where he 
married the vizier's daughter, and suc- 
ceeded his father-in-law in office. A son 
was born to him in due time, and on the 
very same day the wife of his elder 
brother had a daughter. Noureddin died 
when his son was barely twenty, and un- 
married. - Arabian Nights (" Noureddin 
Ali," etc.). 
 
  Nourgehan's Bracelet. Nourgehan, 
emperor of the Moguls, had a bracelet 
which had the property of discovering 
poison, even at a considerable distance. 
When poison was anywhere near the 
wearer, the stones of the bracelet seemed 
agitated, and the agitation increased as 
the poison approached them.-Comte de 
Caylus, Oriental Tales (" The Four Talis- 
mans," 1743). 
 
  Nour'Jahad, a sleeper, like Rip Van 
Winkle, Epimen'id~s, etc. (See SLEEPERS.) 
 
  NourJeham (" light of the world"). So 
the Sultana Nourmahal was subsequently 
called. - T. Moore, Lalla Bookh (" The 
Light of the Haram," 1817). 
 
  Nourmahal' (The sultana), i.e. "Light 
of the Haram," afterwards called Nourje- 
ham (" light of the world"). She was for a 
season estranged from the sultan, till he 
gave a grand banquet, at which she ap- 
 
 
peared in disguise as a lute-player and 
singer. The sultan was so enchanted with 
her performance, that he exclaimed, "If 
Nourmahal had so played and sung, I 
could forgive her all;" whereupon the 
sultana threw off her mask, and Selim 
"caught her to his heart."-T. Moore, Lalla 
Rookh (" The Light of the Haram," 1817). 
 
  Nouron'ihar, daughter of the Emir 
Fakreddin; a laughing, beautiful girl, full 
of fun and pretty mischief, dotingly fond 
of Gulchenrouz, her cousin, a boy of 13. 
She married the Caliph Vathek, with whom 
she descended into the abyss of Eblis, 
whence she never after returned to the 
light of day. 
  The trick she played Bababalouk was 
this: Vathek, the caliph, was on a visit 
to Fakreddin, the emir', and Bababalouk, 
his chief eunuch, intruded into the bath- 
room, where Nouronihar and her damsels 
were bathing. Nouronihar induced the 
old eunuch to rest himself on the swing, 
when the girls set it going with all their 
might. The cords broke, the eunuch fell 
into the bath, and the girls made off with 
their lamps, and left the meddlesome old 
fool to flounder about till morning, when 
assistance came, but not before he was 
half dead.-W. Beckford, Vathek (1784). 
 
  Nouroun'nihar, niece 6f a sultan of 
India, who had three sons, all in love with 
her. The sultan said he would give her 
to him who, in twelve months, gave him 
the most valuable present. The three 
princes met in a certain inn at the expira- 
tion of the time, when one prince looked 
through a tube, which showed Nouroun- 
nihar at the point of death; another of the 
brothers transported all three instanta- 
neously on a magic carpet to the princess's 
chamber; and the third brother gave her 
an apple to smell* of which effected an in- 
 
 
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