[263] Porphyry, book 2, chap. lvi.
[264] Ammianus, book xxxi., chapter xvi.
[265] Procopius, Bell. Pers., part i., chap. xix.
[266] W. Robinson Smith, Kinship and Marriage, p. 296.
[267] Trans. by George Sale, Al Koran, chap. vi., p. 114.
[268] Ibid., chap. xvi., p. 218.
[269] Ibid., chap. lxxxi., pp. 480–481.
[270] “Al Hedaya Fil Foroo,” by Sheik Burhan-ad-deen Alee, trans. by Charles Hamilton, vol. i., p. xxxiii.
[271] Id., book x., vol. ii.
[272] “Al Hedaya Fil Foroo,” vol ii., book x., par. 3.