[53:4] Shahrastānī: Cureton's ed., p. 44.

[53:5] In my treatment of the atomism of Islamic Rationalists, I am indebted to Arthur Biram's publication: "Kitābul Masā’il fil khilāf beyn al-Baṣriyyīn wal Baghdādiyyīn".

[55:1] Macdonald's Muslim Theology, p. 161.

[57:1] Ibn Ḥazm in his Kitāb al-Milal, looks upon the heretical sects of Persia as a continuous struggle against the Arab power which the cunning Persian attempted to shake off by these peaceful means. See Von Kremer's Geschichte der herrschenden Ideen des Islams, pp. 10, 11, where this learned Arab historian of Cordova is quoted at length.

[63:1] Sharastānī: Cureton's ed: p. 149.

[64:1] Jāwidān Kabīr, fol. 149a.

[64:2] Jāwidān Kabīr, fol. 280a.

[64:3] Jāwidān Kabīr, fol. 366b.

[64:4] Jāwidān Kabīr, fol. 155b.

[65:1] Jāwidān Kabīr, fol. 382a.