29 Preface وَطَلحٍ مَنضودٍAli Quli Qaraiand clustered spathes1 This is according to the reading wa ṭalʿin manḍūd (instead of wa ṭalḥin manḍūd, meaning ‘and clustered plantains’) narrated from Imam ʿAlī and Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and Ibn ʿAbbās. (Muʿjam, al-Kashshāf).