[FOOTNOTES:]
[1] Maracci Prodromus Alcorani Patavii, 1698.
[2] Gagnier Vita Mohammedis ex Abulfeda Oxonii, 1723.
[3] Sale’s Koran, London, 1734.
[4] Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations, par Voltaire, tom. 2, Chap. 6.
[5] The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Gibbon, chap. 50.
[6] Vier und Zwanzig Bücher Allgemeine Geschichten, durch Johannes von Müller, 12 buch, 2 kap.
[7] Ikra-bi-ismi reblike, read in the name of the Lord. The commencement of the first published Sura, the 90th in the present arrangement.
[8] This fact is not related by Aboulfaraj alone, but also by Macrisi and Ibn Khaledun, and after them by Hadji Khalfa.
[9] Abulfeda, Annales Moslemici, I. 282.