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84 |
Cf. Issawi, pp.
118
f. |
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85 |
This seems to refer to the treatment meted out by
Bedouins to valuable cushions that belonged to the Persian
commander, Rustum. According to the legend, they poked at them
with their lances, thus ripping them open. Cf. Ibn at-Tiqtaqa,
Fakhri, tr.
C. E. J. Whitting (London, 1947), p. 77. C and D do not read
m-r-f-q, but
m-r-q-q;
still, Issawi's suggestion that we read
muraqqaq and
translate "loaves of bread . . . parchment" is implausible.
The story about the camphor also appears in Ibn
at-Tigtaga, p. 79. |
|
86 |
Cf. at-Tabari,
Annales, III, 1081 ff.; al-Mas'Odi,
Muruj adh-dhahab, VII, 66 f. However, Ibn Khaldun has
many more details than at-Tabari and alMas'itdi provide. For
some further references to this often quoted story, cf.
Jurjis'Awwad's edition of ash-Shabushti,
Diyarat (Baghdad,
1951), p. 101 (n. 3). |
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87 |
How these stories
gained in the telling is illustrated by the fact that another
source has rill
(pounds) instead of mann
here. Cf. al-Khatib alBaghdidi,
Ta'rikh Baghdad (Cairo, 1349/1931), VII, 321. |
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88 |
Cf. AN Nuwas,
Diwan (Cairo, 1898), p. 243. The verse is also quoted by
grammarians. Cf. al-Hariri, Durrat al-ghawwas, ed. H.
Thorbecke (Leipzig, 1871), p. 46; Ibn Hisham,
La Pluie de rosee, tr.
A. Goguyer (Leiden, 1887), p. 374. |
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89 |
Ibn Khaldun
apparently has in mind the palace of al-Ma'mun which, before
him, had belonged to Jafar al-Barmaki, and after him to al-Hasan
b. Sahl. Cf. G. Le Strange, Baghdad
during the Abbasid Caliphate (Oxford, 1900),
p. 246. |
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90 |
'Ali b, Bassam, d.
542 [1147/481. Cf. GAL, I, 339;
Snppl., I, 579. Of the published
portion of the Dhakhirah,
one passage contains a long description of a
splendid festival on the occasion of the circumcision of al-Ma'mun's
grandson. Ibn Bassam's source is Ibn Hayyan; cf.
Dhakhirah (Cairo,
1358/1939-), IV 1, 99 ff. The wedding, however, does not seem
to occur in the volumes published. The relevant section of Ibn
Hayyan is not preserved; cf. n. 18 to Ibn Khaldun's
Introduction, above. |
|
91 |
The earlier texts have "Turkish Mamelukes," but
the word "Mamelukes"
appears to have been crossed out in C and does not occur in D. |
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92 |
"And
dynasties" appears in the margin of C and in the text of D. 99
Cf. Issawi, pp. 119 f. |
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