[730] Murúju ’l-Dhahab, vol. ii, p. 401 seq.
[731] The Influence of Buddhism upon Islam, by I. Goldziher (Budapest, 1903). As this essay is written in Hungarian, I have not been able to consult it at first hand, but have used the excellent translation by Mr. T. Duka, which appeared in the J.R.A.S. for January, 1904, pp. 125-141.
[732] It was recognised by the Ṣúfís themselves that in some points their doctrine was apparently based on Mu‘tazilite principles. See Sha‘rání, Lawáqiḥu ’l-Anwár (Cairo, 1299 a.h.), p. 14, l. 21 sqq.
[733] This definition is by Abu ’l-Ḥusayn al-Núrí († 907-908 a.d.).
[734] See Professor Browne's Lit. Hist. of Persia, vol. ii, p. 261 sqq.
[735] The Díwán of ‘Umar Ibnu ’l-Fáriḍ, ed. by Rushayyid al-Daḥdáḥ (Marseilles, 1853).
[736] I.e., New and Old Cairo.
[737] The Díwán, excluding the Tá’iyyatu ’l-Kubrá, has been edited by Rushayyid al-Daḥdáḥ (Marseilles, 1853).
[738] Díwán, p. 219, l. 14 and p. 213, l. 18.
[739] Ibnu ’l-Fáriḍ, like Mutanabbí, shows a marked fondness for diminutives. As he observes (Díwán, p. 552):—