A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

FOOTNOTES:

[1] H. Grimme, Weltgeschichte in Karakterbildern: Mohammed (Munich, 1904), p. 6 sqq.

[2] Cf. Nöldeke, Die Semitischen Sprachen (Leipzig, 1899), or the same scholar's article, 'Semitic Languages,' in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition. Renan's Histoire générale des langues sémitiques (1855) is now antiquated. An interesting essay on the importance of the Semites in the history of civilisation was published by F. Hommel as an introduction to his Semitischen Völker und Sprachen, vol. i (Leipzig, 1883). The dates in this table are of course only approximate.

[3] Ibn Qutayba, Kitábu ’l-Ma‘árij, ed. by Wüstenfeld, p. 18.

[4] Full information concerning the genealogy of the Arabs will be found in Wüstenfeld's Genealogische Tabellen der Arabischen Stämme und Familien with its excellent Register (Göttingen, 1852-1853).

[5] The tribes Ḍabba, Tamím, Khuzayma, Hudhayl, Asad, Kinána, and Quraysh together formed a group which is known as Khindif, and is often distinguished from Qays ‘Aylán.

[6] Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, Part I, p. 133 sqq., 177 sqq.

[7] Nöldeke in Z.D.M.G., vol. 40, p. 177.

[8] See Margoliouth, Mohammed and the Rise of Islam, p. 4.

[9] Concerning the nature and causes of this antagonism see Goldziher, op. cit., Part I, p. 78 sqq.