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The first two
paragraphs, the contents of which correspond roughly to the last
paragraph of the section, are not yet found in Bulaq, A, or E,
and are also missing in D. They appear in the margin of C and in
the text of B. |
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The exact meaning of
the various words denoting different kinds of sewing is
uncertain. Cf. also 3:355, below. The word translated here "cuts
openings," appears as an adjective qualifying the long trousers
(as-sarawil al-mufattahah at-tiwal) allegedly worn
by certain Christian soldiers in the Sudan, in Ibn Hawqal,
Opus Geographicum,
ed. J. H. Kramers (Leiden, 1938-39), 1, 58, 1.
20. |
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Cf p. 317 (n. 19), above. |
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Hermes Trismegistos
is occasionally identified with Idris in Arabic sources, as
early, for instance, as Abu Ma'shar,
Utuf, quoted by Sa'id alAndalusi,
Tabaqat al-umam,
tr. R. Blachere, pp. 54 f.; al-Mas'udi,
Muruj adh-dhahab, 1,
73; al-Mubashshir b. Fatik,
Mukhtar al-hikam,
chapter on Hermes; al-Qifti, Ta'rikh
al-hukamd', p. 2. |
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Qur'an
15.86 (86); 36.81 (81). |
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