shillings per night yet procured more by the visitors' givings

Male expert performers during this period were called Alateeyeh (plural), or Alatee (particular), which signifies "a player upon an instrument". Notwithstanding, this name applies to the two singers just as instrumentalists. This position was viewed as notorious and humble. Nonetheless, artists looked for some kind of employment singing or playing at gatherings to engage the organization. They for the most part made three shillings per night, yet procured more by the visitors' givings. ----

---- Female expert artists were called Awalim (pl) or Al'meh, which implies a scholarly female. These artists were frequently recruited on the event of a festival in the collection of mistresses of a well off individual. They were not with the collection of mistresses, but rather in a raised room that was hidden by a screen so as not to be seen by either the group of concubines or the expert of the house. The female Awalim were more generously compensated than male entertainers and more profoundly viewed than the Alateeyeh also. Path relates an occasion of a female entertainer who so delighted her crowd that she procured up to fifty guineas for one night's presentation from the visitors and host, themselves not thought about affluent.