[19] It is to be noticed also that the name “Unaisa” is very common among the Arabs; cf. Ibn Sa‘ad (ed. Sachau), III, 254, 260, 264, 265, 281, 283, 287, 289; Musnad, VI, 434; Mishkat, 22, 724.
[20] Geschichte der herrschenden Ideen des Islams, p. 195.
[21] Ibn Ḫallikân (Egyptian edit., A. H. 1310), I, 316; Mohammed al-‘Omari, al-Mauṣili, “Šeiḫ ‘Adî,” quoted by M. N. Siouffi, Journal asiatique, 1885, 80; Yaḳut, IV, 374.
[22] ‘Itiḳad Ahl as-Sunna, “Belief of the Sunnites,” the Waṣaya, “Counsels to the Califs”; cf. C. Huart, History of Arabic Literature, p. 273.
[23] See p. 61 of this book.
[24] Aš-Šahrastânî regards them a Ḫarijíte sub-sect.
[25] Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, II, 254.
[26] Mohammed al-‘Omari al-Mausili and Yâsîn al-Ḫâtib al-‘Omari al-Mauṣili, “Šeiḫ ‘Adî,” quoted by M. N. Siouffi, Journal asiatique, Série viii, V (1885), 80.
[27] George Warda, Bishop of Arbila, Poems, edited by Heinrich Hilgenfeld, Leipzig, 1904.
[28] Such as their ceremonies at Šeiḫ ‘Adî (Badger, The Nestorians, I, 117), which have obtained for them the name Cheraḡ Sonderan, “The Extinguishers of Light.” Bar Hebraeus (Chronicon Eccles., ed. Abeloos-Lamy, I, 219) speaks of similar practices among what he calls “Borborians,” a branch of the Manichaeans, and calls them “The Extinguishers of Light.” This name is applied to other eastern sects also; see Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, V, 124.