A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[858] Following Burckhardt's example, most European writers call him simply ‘Abdu ’l-Wahháb.

[859] Burckhardt, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 96.

[860] MSS. of Ibn Taymiyya copied by Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahháb are extant (Goldziher in Z.D.M.G., vol. 52, p. 156).

[861] This is the place usually called Karbalá or Mashhad Ḥusayn.

[862] Op. cit., vol. ii, p. 112.

[863] Essai sur l'histoire de l'Islamisme, p. 416.

[864] Burckhardt, loc. laud., p. 115.

[865] I cannot enter into details on this subject. A review of modern Arabic literature is given by Brockelmann, Gesch. der Arab. Litt., vol. ii, pp. 469-511, and by Huart, Arabic Literature, pp. 411-443.

[866] See M. Hartmann, The Arabic Press of Egypt (London, 1899).

[867] Brockelmann, loc. cit., p. 476.