[187]. Ibn Khallikán, No. 1.
[188]. B. al-Rashíd.
[189]. Aghání, 5, 52-131.
[190]. The vizier of Khusraw Núshírwán, the great Sásánian king of Persia (531-78 A.D.).
[191]. The Book of Audition.
[192]. “The followers of Tradition” as opposed to “the followers of Opinion” (ahl-i ra´y).
[193]. See Professor Browne’s Literary History of Persia, i, 81.
[194]. Abú Nuwás, Die Weinlieder, ed. by Ahlwardt, No. 29, verse 1.
[195]. εὐαγγέλιον.
[196]. The mountains referred to are the Jabal al-Buttam, to the east of Samarcand. See G. Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, p. 467.