A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[424] Sha‘rání, Lawáqihu ’l-Anwár (Cairo, 1299 a.h.), p. 31.

[425] Ibid.

[426] See Von Kremer, Herrschende Ideen, p. 52 sqq.; Goldziher, Materialien zur Entwickelungsgesch. des Súfismus (Vienna Oriental Journal, vol. 13, p. 35 sqq.).

[427] Sha‘rání, Lawáqiḥ, p. 38.

[428] Qushayrí's Risála (1287 a.h.), p. 77, l. 10.

[429] Tadhkiratu ’l-Awliyá of Farídu’ddín ‘Aṭṭár, Part I, p. 37, l. 8 of my edition.

[430] Kámil (ed. by Wright), p. 57, l. 16.

[431] The point of this metaphor lies in the fact that Arab horses were put on short commons during the period of training, which usually began forty days before the race.

[432] Kámil, p. 57, last line.

[433] Kámil, p. 58, l. 14.