A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[10] The word 'Arabic' is always to be understood in this sense wherever it occurs in the following pages.

[11] First published by Sachau in Monatsberichte der Kön. Preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (February, 1881), p. 169 sqq.

[12] See De Vogüé, Syrie Centrale, Inscriptions Sémitiques, p. 117. Other references are given in Z.D.M.G., vol. 35, p. 749.

[13] On this subject the reader may consult Goldziher. Muhammedanische Studien, Part I, p. 110 sqq.

[14] Professor Margoliouth in F.R.A.S. for 1905, p. 418

[15] Nöldeke, Die Semitischen Sprachen, p. 36 sqq. and p. 51.

[16] Journal Asiatique (March, 1835), p. 209 sqq.

[17] Strictly speaking, the Jáhiliyya includes the whole time between Adam and Muḥammad, but in a narrower sense it may be used, as here, to denote the Pre-islamic period of Arabic Literature.

[18] Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den Südsemitischen Völkern, p. 343 seq.

[19] Iramu Dhátu ’l-‘Imád (Koran, lxxxix, 6). The sense of these words is much disputed. See especially Ṭabarí's explanation in his great commentary on the Koran (O. Loth in Z.D.M.G., vol. 35, p. 626 sqq.).