715

The last half of the sentence is added in C and D.

716

Cf. p. 142, above.

717

C and D add: "after him (i.e., Averroes)." This would mean that only the works of Averroes, and not those of Avicenna, were famous and studied in Ibn Khaldun's time. Considering the repeated references to Avicenna in the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun hardly meant to say that.

718

Al-Amidi (cf. p. 29, above) wrote, in fact, against Fakhr-ad-din ar-Razi's (Ibn al-Khatib's) commentary on the Isharat. His work is entitled Kashf at-tamwihat.

719

Muhammad b. Muhammad, 597-672 [1201-1274]. Cf. GAL, I, 508 ff.; Suppl., I, 924 ff. His commentary is entitled Hall mushkilat al-Isharat. "'Iraqi" (corrected in Bulaq to "eastern") refers to what Ibn Khaldun called "the non-Arab `Iraq."

720

Qur^'an 12.76 (76).