A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[591] This passage occurs in Abu ’l-‘Alá's Risálatu ’l-Ghufrán (see infra), J.R.A.S. for 1902, p. 351. Cf. the verses translated by Von Kremer in his essay on Abu ’l-‘Alá, p. 23.

[592] For the term 'Ḥaníf' see p. [149] supra. Here it is synonymous with 'Muslim.'

[593] Z.D.M.G., vol. 38, p. 513.

[594] This work, of which only two copies exist in Europe—one at Constantinople and another in my collection—has been described and partially translated in the J.R.A.S. for 1900, pp. 637-720, and for 1902, pp. 75-101, 337-362, and 813-847.

[595] Margoliouth, op. cit., p. 132, last line of the Arabic text.

[596] Z.D.M.G., vol. 31, p. 483.

[597] De Gobineau, Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale, p. 11 seq.

[598] Z.D.M.G., vol. 31, p. 477.

[599] Ibid., vol. 29, p. 311.

[600] Z.D.M.G. vol. 38, p. 522.