The back of each cupboard is fitted with tiers of little drawers and pigeon-holes, and in front is a kind of matted stone step, called a mastabah, which serves for seat and counter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

"mastabah" or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

And after he had descended upon the ground, he sat a little while upon the mastabah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.] Reference

He ate him, and slept upon the mastabah, and the noise from his throat was like thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.] Reference

The customer sits on the edge of the mastabah; the merchant squats, cross-legged, inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

Indeed, in the violet dusk, the great mastabah Pyramid of Méydûm seemed already to loom above them, although it was quite four miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brood of the Witch-Queen] Reference

We entered this pavilion, and found in it a wide, open space, like a wide, large court, around which were many lofty doors, and at its upper end was a high and great mastabah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.] Reference

In this state he passed by the door of a merchant, the ground before which was swept and sprinkled, and there the air was temperate; and by the side of the door was a wide mastabah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Story of Es-Sindibad of the Sea and Es-Sindibad of the Land.] Reference

He seated himself upon the edge of the mastabah, and heard in that place the melodious sounds of stringed instruments, with the lute among them, and mirth-exciting voices, and varieties of distinct recitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Story of Es-Sindibad of the Sea and Es-Sindibad of the Land.] Reference

He roasted him, and ate him upon the mastabah, and ceased not to sleep that night, making a noise with his throat like a slaughtered animal; and when the day came, he arose and went his way, leaving us as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.] Reference

Then he arose resolutely from that mastabah, and began to search for us, while we fled from him to the right and left, and he saw us not; for his sight was blinded; but we feared him with a violent fear, and made sure, in that time, of destruction, and despaired of safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.] Reference

The porch, (Matthew 26: 71) may have been the passage from the street into the first court of the house, in which, in eastern houses, is the mastabah or stone bench, for the porter or persons waiting, and where also the master of the house often receives visitors and transacts business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

“mastabah” or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

We soon became so familiar, however, with this obvious trait of Mohammedan life, that it seemed quite a matter of course that the camel-driver should dismount and lay his forehead in the dust by the roadside; or the merchant spread his prayer-carpet on the narrow mastabah of his little shop in the public bazaar; or the boatman prostrate himself with his face to the east, as the sun went down behind the hills of the Libyan desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference