Another sect, the Ulviahs, also devoted to Ali, maintain that he was united with the sun, that he is now the sun, and having also been the sun before, he was for some days only united to an elemental body. Both these sects reject the Koran.
Here terminates the review of the second volume of the English Dabistán.
[161] See, in what sense, pp. [83-84].
[162] See vol. III. pp. 202-203. See also ibid., p. 229 and note 2.
[163] See upon this subject a recent very ingenious work: Essai sur les Écoles philosophiques chez les Arabes, et notamment sur la doctrine d’Algazzalí, par Auguste Schmölders, docteur en philosophie, Paris, 1842. Dedicated to M. Reinaud, member of the Institute of France, and professor of Arabic.
[164] See vol. II. p. 368.
[165] Vol. II. pp. 404-407.
[166] See vol. II. p. 433 et seq.
[167] See Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l’Égypte et sur quelques contrées voisines, par Étienne Quatremère, vol. II. p. 504. 1811.