[32] The life of Manṣûr-al-Ḥallâj is given in Fihrist (ed. Flügel), p. 190.
[33] The life of ‘Abd-al-ḳâdir of Jîlân is given in Jami’s Nafaḥat (ed. Lee), p. 584.
[34] The Hakkari country is a dependency of Mosul, and inhabited by Kurds and Nestorians; cf. p. 104. Ibn Ḫauḳal, Kîtâb al-Masâlik wal-Mamâlik (ed. M. J. De Goeje), pp. 143 f.
[35] Yaḳût, IV, 373, calls it Laileš and says that Šeiḫ ‘Adî lived there.
[36] Presumably Yezîd bn Mu‘âwiya, the second caliph in the Omayyid dynasty, who reigned, A. D. 680-83; cf. W. Muir, The Caliphate, p. 327.
[37] The life of Ḥasan al-Baṣrî is given in Ibn Ḫallikân. He is not to be identified with Ḥasan al-Baṣrî (died 110 A. H., who, according to Mohammedan tradition, first pointed the Koran text, with the assistance of Yaḥyâ bn Yamar.
[38] In Menant’s Yzidis, 48, the names of these seven angels are somewhat differently given. According to Mohammedan tradition Zazil or Azazil was the original name of the devil.
[39] By the “throne” here is meant the throne of God, and by the “carpet” the earth; cf. Sura 60: 131.
[40] According to Moslem belief, wheat was the forbidden fruit; see Baiḍâwi on Sura, ii, 33.
[41] Kunsiniyat is an obscure term.