1

A and D add "and towns."

2

Cf., for instance, 1:347, above.

3

Hayakil. Cf. n. 172 to Ch. i, above.

4

Bulaq: "the markets."

5

The reference seems to be to al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ta'rikh Baghdad, I, 117, but Ibn Khaldun probably quotes him indirectly. For the "Preacher of Baghdad," Ahmad b. 'Ali, 392-463 [1002-1071], cf. GAL, I, 329; Suppl., 1, 562 ff

5a

Cf. our remarks on Ibn Khaldun's use of this word, 1:lxxvii, above.

6

Ibn Khaldun was probably thinking of Fustat.

7

Cf. n. 6 to Ch. III, above.