Cats
animal · 4 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
cats · the cat · Abū Ghazwān · Abū Khirāsh · a cat · a starving cat · a tom-cat · hirrah · sinnawr · the cats
spoken of as
2 expressionsthe cat2 mentions
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
and it is not enough that it worship an idol in the shape of that animal — the condition is that it hold the species of this animal sacred and refrain from harming it, as the Egyptians held the cat or the scarab sacred.
Cat1 mention
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)
For were you to see a watch and beside it a cat, there is no doubt that you would not judge that the cat made it;
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The cat of Egyptian religion, cited as a genuine instance of a species held sacred, in contrast to Arab practice.
and it is not enough that it worship an idol in the shape of that animal — the condition is that it hold the species of this animal sacred and refrain from harming it, as the Egyptians held the cat or the scarab sacred.
The cat is Abū Khirāsh, and it is said Abū Ghazwān;
Law in a Free State
Stray cats fed by an old lady, whose growing numbers prompt the formation of a voluntary charitable subscription club.
She is soon recognised as a benefactress, and the cats for a mile round swarm to her threshold.
And even the poor crabbed bigot, after his Lenten salad, will linger over some flower, whose fragrance arouses the memory of half-forgotten days, with emotions widely different from the feelings of a tom-cat in a bed of musk.
So, cats like the scent of verbena and musk.
The Histories
Domestic cats, described for their breeding behavior and fire-related conduct, and honored with shaving-mourning and sacred burial at Bubastis.
Dead cats are taken away to sacred buildings in the town of Bubastis, where they are embalmed and buried;
And when a fire breaks out, very strange things happen among the cats.
and there would be many more, were it not for what happens among the cats.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
A cat, used as the manifestly incapable putative maker of a watch in the example on causal irrelevance.
For were you to see a watch and beside it a cat, there is no doubt that you would not judge that the cat made it;