A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[601] According to De Goeje, Mémoires sur les Carmathes du Bahrain, p. 197, n. 1, these lines refer to a prophecy made by the Carmathians that the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, which took place in 1047 a.d. would herald the final triumph of the Fáṭimids over the ‘Abbásids.

[602] Z.D.M.G., vol. 38, p. 504.

[603] Z.D.M.G., vol. 31, p. 474.

[604] Luzúmiyyát (Cairo, 1891), i, 394.

[605] Ibid., i, 312.

[606] Von Kremer, op. cit., p. 38.

[607] Safar-náma, ed. by Schefer, p. 10 seq. = pp. 35-36 of the translation.

[608] Luzúmiyyát, ii, 280. The phrase does not mean "I am the child of my age," but "I live in the present," forgetful of the past and careless what the future may bring.

[609] See Von Kremer, op. cit., p. 46 sqq.

[610] See the article on Ṭughrá’í in Ibn Khallikán, De Slane's translation, vol. i, p. 462.