[70] Id. p. 72; Sale, pp. 184–85; Tabari’s Chronicle, pt. v, ch. xcvii, Zotenberg’s tr. 1874, iv, 447–53. Tabari notes (p. 448) that all the Moslem theologians agree in thinking zendēkism much worse than any of the false religions, since it rejects all and denies God as well as the Prophet. [↑]
[71] Cp. Steiner, pp. 55 sq., 66 sq.; Ueberweg, Hist. of Philos., i, 405. [↑]
[72] Dugat, p. 76. See Sale, pp. 82–83, 162–63, as to the champions of this principle. [↑]
[73] Sale, p. 83; Macdonald, p. 150. [↑]
[74] Dugat, p. 79; Osborn, The Khalifs of Baghdad, p. 195. [↑]
[75] Palmer, Haroun Alraschid, p. 82. They were really theists. [↑]
[76] Weil, Geschichte der Chalifen, ii, 215, 261, 280; A. Müller, Der Islam, pp. 514–15. “It was believed that he was at heart a zindiq.” Nicholson, p. 368. [↑]