[CQ] Because of his stupidity Áqá Muḥammad-Mihdí was mockingly called Safíhu'l-`Ulamá—the Foolish One of the Learned.
[CR] Three miles roughly to a farsang or farsakh.
[CS] Maydán is a public square or an arena; as a measure of distance it was an indeterminate sub-division of a farsang.
[CT] According to Nicolas, the French envoy in Ṭihrán (M. de Bonnière) wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, on March 4th 1847, that Mu`tamidu'd-Dawlih, the Governor of Iṣfahán, had died, leaving a fortune estimated at 40 million francs.[11]
[CU] Yerevan or Erivan, today the capital of the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic.
[CV] Qum is the second holy city of Írán. Mashhad which holds the Shrine of Imám Riḍá has pride of place.
[CW] Commonly known as al-Kulayní, he died in A.D. 941. He was the author of Uṣúl al-Káfí (Uṣúl-i-Káfí in Persian usage), one of the four books that form the compendium of the belief and practice of Ithná-`Asharís ('Twelvers'). These are the Shí`ahs who believe in the major occultation of the Twelfth Imám, Muḥammad ibn-i-Ḥasan al-`Askarí.
[CX] In the opinion of the present writer, the second revolt of the Aga Khan, in 1840, was entirely due to the tortuous policies and the maladroitness of Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí himself.
[CY] Also Mákú or Má-Kúh.