A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[30] The oldest inscriptions, however, run from left to right and from right to left alternately (βουστρορηδόν).

[31] Notiz ueber die himjaritische Schrift nebst doppeltem Alphabet derselben in Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. i (Göttingen, 1837), p. 332 sqq.

[32] See Arnaud's Relation d'un voyage à Mareb (Saba) dans l'Arabie méridionale in the Journal Asiatique, 4th series, vol. v (1845), p. 211 sqq. and p. 309 sqq.

[33] See Rapport sur une mission archéologique dans le Yémen in the Journal Asiatique, 6th series, vol. xix (1872), pp. 5-98, 129-266, 489-547.

[34] See D. H. Müller, Die Burgen und Schlösser Südarabiens in S.B.W.A., vol. 97, p. 981 sqq.

[35] The title Mukarrib combines the significations of prince and priest.

[36] Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, Part I, p. 3.

[37] See F. Prætorius, Unsterblichkeitsglaube und Heiligenverehrung bei den Himyaren in Z.D.M.G., vol. 27, p. 645. Hubert Grimme has given an interesting sketch of the religious ideas and customs of the Southern Arabs in Weltgeschichte in Karakterbildern: Mohammed (Munich, 1904), p. 29 sqq.

[38] Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. 5, p. 409.

[39] This table of contents is quoted by D. H. Müller (Südarabische Studien, p. 108, n. 2) from the title-page of the British Museum MS. of the eighth book of the Iklíl. No complete copy of the work is known to exist, but considerable portions of it are preserved in the British Museum and in the Berlin Royal Library.