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CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
Page 2, penult. For (p. 3) read (p. 1).
p. 3, line 14 and l. 30. For (p. 3) read (p. 1).
p. 4, l. 18. For (p. 3) read (p. 1).
p. 4, l. 26. For just as the veil destroys revelation (mukáshafat) read just as veiling destroys the unveiled object (mukáshaf).
p. 6, l. 4 and l. 16. For (p. 3) read (p. 1).
p. 51, l. 6. For Parg read Burk or Purg, and correct the note accordingly. See Guy Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, p. 292.
p. 54, l. 28. For the infectious cankers of the age read the cankers which infect age after age.
p. 85, l. 19. For (sáḥib al-qulúb) read (ṣáḥi´l-qulúb). Ṣáḥí, “sober,” is the antithesis of maghlúb, “enraptured.”
p. 127, l. 17. For al-Inṭákí read al-Anṭákí.
p. 130, l. 27. Although some writers give “Abu ´l-Ḥasan” as the kunya of Núrí, the balance of authority is in favour of “Abu ´l-Ḥusayn”.
p. 131, n. 2. Add, See Goldziher in ZDMG., 61, 75 ff., and a passage in Yáqút’s Irshád al-Aríb, ed. by Margoliouth, vol. iii, pt. i, 153, 3 ff.; cited by Goldziher in JRAS. for 1910, p. 888.
p. 140, l. 19. For Abú Muḥammad `Abdalláh read Abú `Abdalláh.
p. 155, l. 26. Omit B. before Dulaf.
p. 169, l. 1. Omit B. before `Alí.
p. 173, l. 11. For Pádsháh-i read Pádisháh-i.
p. 182, l. 26. Sháhmurghí is probably a mistake for siyáh murghí, “a blackbird.” Cf. my edition of the Tadhkirat al-Awliyá, ii, 259, 23.
p. 257, l. 1. For t`aṭíl read ta`ṭíl.
p. 323, l. 10. For Miṣṣíṣí read Maṣṣíṣí.