102
Cf. Issawi, pp. 83 f. 355
103
Cf. p. 6, above, and p. 977, below; and, for instance, F. Rosenthal, "Abu Haiyan al-Tawhidi on Penmanship," Ars Islamica, XIII-XIV (1948), 11.
104
Rabi'ah seems to be the reading of all MSS. The three orders of existence referred to here are the mineral, plant, and animal worlds. Bulaq reads rafi'ah "lifts up the (various) orders of existence toward the ideas."
105
Qur'an 16.86 (86); 96.81 (81).