Mihaffa

Shir Khān... alleged as a pretext that he had a large number of families with him, and having placed two thousand armed Afghāns in closed litters⁷ sent them towards the fort. 7 The Mihaffa is, as its name implies, a litter so closed in that the curtains surround on all sides the sitter upon it...

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Yet comfort in those days might well be considered hardship in these. Men who experienced the sensations of transport by camel cacolet during the Great War will sympathise with poor Mr. Beawes, who was daily shaken almost to pieces in a mihaffa.

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...ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Abuʾl-Ḥasan al-Bakrī (d. 952/1545–6), a rich ʿālim and a Sufi, wrote poetry. Shaʿrānī reports that he was the first to go on pilgrimage in a litter (miḥaffa).

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Royal ladies generally travelled in the imaris—an octagonal seat with canopy and its sides covered with curtains, carried by an elephant on its back or in the mihaffa—a rectangular seat, carried by two camels.

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