[10] R. du M. M., ix. (1909), p. 252. [↑]
[11] G͟hulām Sarwar: K͟hazīnat al-Aṣfīyā, vol. ii. p. 407–8. [↑]
[12] Goldziher, vol. ii. pp. 303–4. [↑]
[13] The Pechenegs at that time occupied the country between the lower Danube and the Don, to which they had migrated from the banks of the Ural at the end of the ninth century. (Karamsin, vol. i. pp. 180–1.) [↑]
[14] Abū ʻUbayd al-Bakrī (died 1094), pp. 467–8. [↑]
[15] G͟hulām Sarwar: K͟hazīnat al-Aṣfīyā, vol. i. p. 613. [↑]
[16] D. Crawford: Thinking Black, p. 202. (London, 1913.) [↑]
[17] Doughty, vol. ii. p. 39. [↑]
[18] This was emphasised by Marracci in the seventeenth century. “Si ethnicus mysteria humani intellectus captum excedentia, vel naturali conditioni et imbecillitati difficillima, si non impossibilia, cum Alcoranica doctrina comparaverit, statim ab his refugiet, et ad illa obviis ulnis accurret.” (Alcorani textus … translatus, p. 9. Patavii, 1698.) [↑]