730

Cf. pp. 85 H:, above.

731

Cf. p. 86, above.

732

Cf., for instance, p. 122, above.

733

Cf. Bombaci, p. 449.

734

Ibn Khaldun has al-mutalabah, but perhaps he had intended to write al-mutawalah "to wait...." The same reading may also be appropriate in the third line of this paragraph.

735

Cf. 1:41, above.

736

Cf. also 1:360, above.

737

The decisive event was the defeat of Masud I, the son of Mahmud of Ghaznah, by the Saljugs in 431 [1040].

738

Qur'an 33.62 (62); 35.43 (41); 48.23 (23).

739

Istibsaran bi-l-iman. Cf. 1:321 (n. 21), above.

740

The words kifa' dhalika did not yet appear in the early text of Bulaq