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using. Coffee is not mentiotied by Haji Zein-el-Attér, w 
wrote in A.D. 1868 ; consequently, it cannot have been kno 
in Persia at that date. Though coffee was known to the Ara 
aS a medicine in the 14th century, coffee-drinking does 2 
century, when, according to some authorities, Jamal-ed-deen 
Abu Abdulla Muhammad bin Said-ed-Dubéni, Kadi of Aden, 
returning from Abyssinia, where the practice is said to have 
existed from a very early date, introduced it at Aden, whence 
on the mountains of Yemen, being much worn out by fe 
and constant vigils, accidentally ate some of the berries of 
coffee bush, and finding them very refreshing, told the Ny 
of their discovery, upon which he ordered them to use a decd 
tion of the fruit as a drink. When first introduced the pra 
of coffee-drinking met with much opposition both in A 
and Persia, and its use was prohibited by some of the M 
metan law doctors. A Persian rhymster says of it: Ae 
Snel BT ALU 5 6 UT aile + Cao! B58 I eUS 5) Aww! 
_ t.e.—That black-faced drink called coffee is the preventer 
sleep and destroyer of manhood. On the other hand 
admirers were not silent, as will be seen from the follo 
lines :— = 
Soop, baelasy ole plyf + das Uns 5133 oy, top cme! 
ew ola ghl& Rat eh os Le lilye glia! oy 
It ministers to the pleasures of the youth of Persia, 
And alleviates the Pangs of decrepid old age. 
came and took up his 
Nugger division, named 
him, and where he established a college, which still 
endowed by the Government. It is said that he brough 
