A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[444] Suhrawardí, loc. cit., p. 136 seq.

[445] Loc. cit., p. 145.

[446] I.e., he yields himself unreservedly to the spiritual 'state' (aḥwál) which pass over him, according as God wills.

[447] Possibly Ibráhím was one of the Shikaftiyya or 'Cave-dwellers' of Khurásán (shikaft means 'cave' in Persian), whom the people of Syria called al-Jú‘íyya, i.e., 'the Fasters.' See Suhrawardí, loc. cit., p. 171.

[448] Ghazálí, Iḥyá (Cairo, 1289 a.h.), vol. iv, p. 298.

[449] Brockelmann, Gesch. d. Arab. Litteratur, vol. i, p. 45.

[450] E.g., Ma‘bad, Gharíḍ, Ibn Surayj, Ṭuways, and Ibn ‘Á’isha.

[451] Kámil of Mubarrad, p. 570 sqq.

[452] Aghání, i, 43, l. 15 sqq.; Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 17, last line and foll.

[453] Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 9, l. 11 sqq., omitting l. 13.