[651] Professor Browne has given a résumé of the contents in his Lit. Hist. of Persia, vol. i, p. 387 seq.
[652] Ed. by Max Grünert (Leyden, 1900).
[653] Vol. i ed. by C. Brockelmann (Weimar and Strassburg, 1898-1908).
[654] The epithet jáḥiẓ means 'goggle-eyed.'
[655] See p. 267.
[656] Ibn Khallikán, De Slane's translation, vol. ii, p. 250.
[657] One of these, the eleventh of the complete work, has been edited by Ahlwardt: Anonyme Arabische Chronik (Greifswald, 1883). It covers part of the reign of the Umayyad Caliph, ‘Abdu ’l-Malik (685-705 a.d.).
[658] The French title is Les Prairies d'Or. Brockelmann, in his shorter Hist. of Arabic Literature (Leipzig, 1901), p. 110, states that the correct translation of Murúju ’l-Dhahab is 'Goldwäschen.'
[659] Concerning Ṭabarí and his work the reader should consult De Goeje's Introduction (published in the supplementary volume containing the Glossary) to the Leyden edition, and his excellent article on Ṭabarí and early Arab Historians in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[660] Abu ’l-Maḥásin, ed. by Juynboll, vol. i, p. 608.