[733]. From Sepp’s Jerusalem und das heilige Land, II. 157.
[734]. In Yâḳût, Geogr. Dictionary, II. 893. The explanation of the name Thakîf in Yâḳût, III. 498, quite reminds one of the Old Testament way of giving etymologies of names.
[735]. See some useful quotations in L. Löw’s Beiträge zur jüd. Alterthumskunde, Szegedin 1875, II. 388; and very interesting references in Pott’s Wilhelm von Humboldt und die Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin 1876, p. CIX. et seq.
[736]. Zeitsch. d. D. M. G., 1853, VII. p. 28.
[737]. See supra, pp. [133], [183].
[738]. Ibn Dureyd, Kitâb al-Ishtîḳâḳ, ed. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen 1853, p. 9.
[739]. See Ewald, History of Israel, I. 19 et seq.
[740]. I have referred to this in Zeitschr. d. D. M. G. 1870, XXIV. 207.
[741]. According to Rabbinical views, Âbhôth V, Mishnâ 21.
[742]. The author refers on p. 127 recto to his earlier work, Biġyat al-mutaʿallim wa-fâʾidat al-mutakallim. Ḥâjî Chalfâ does not know this book of the author’s.