1392

Bulaq adds: "and the harder."

1393

The correct text in Bulaq, C, and D.

1394

Cf. 1:9, above.

1395

Ibn Khaldun read: "that you were to come with the oil." But, utilizing a slight correction suggested in Bulaq, we might perhaps read: annak nakun ma'a lladhin na'ti. This would make much better sense and be quite in keeping with the barbaric distortion of Arabic that the author invented for the enter­tainment of his readers.

1396

Again, Bulaq may be justified in correcting at-tibn to ash-shayn, which would mean "those dogs of nastiness," or something of the sort.

1397

Cf. 1:10 and 316, above.

1398

Cf. 1:8 f., above.

1399

Cf. 1:32, above.

1400

Ahmad b. Muhammad, Ibn Darraj, from Qastallat Darraj (Cacella in Portugal), who died ca. 1030. Cf. GAL, Suppl., 1, 478; E. Levi-Provencal, La Peninsule Iberique (Leiden, 1938), p. 192; Ibn Bassam, Dhakhfrah (Cairo, 1358/1939), 11, 43 ff.

1401

Salih b. Yazid, 601-684 [1204,-1285/861. Cf. Ibn al-Khalib, al-Ihatah, as quoted by M. Casiri, Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana Escurialensis (Madrid, 1760-70), II, 97.

1402

Malik b. 'Abd-ar-Rahman, 604-699 [12o7/8-1299/1300]. Cf. GAL, I, 274; Suppl., 1, 484; 2d ed., 1, 323 f.

1403

Bulaq, A, and B have wa-kuttab instead of wa-kanat, which we find in C (by correction?) and D. Actually, Ibn Khaldun's earlier text may have been the more correct one. It would mean: "who were pupils of the Sevillian community in Ceuta and who had been secretaries [pl. used instead of the dual] at the beginning of the dynasty of Ibn al-Ahmar." It depends on whether this statement is factually correct, something I am not prepared definitely to assert. "Community," lit. "class," means, specifically, the community of poets and litterateurs.

1404

Muhammad b. Ahmad, 674-747 [1276-1346]. Cf. Ibn al-Khatib, al­Ihatah, II, 174 fi:; Ibn Hajar, ad-Durar al-kaminah, III, 349 f. The form Shibrin is thus indicated in C. The sources quoted print Shirin. The edition by an-Nubihi, Kitab al-Margabah al-'ulya (Cairo, 1948), p. 153, vocalizes Shabrin.

1405

He would seem to be Muhammad b. Ahmad b. 'Ali, 698-780 [1298/99-1378]. Cf. GAL, II, 13 f.; Suppl., II, 6, although he is younger than the men with whom he is mentioned.

1406

Ali b. Muhammad, 673-749 [1274-1349]. Cf. GAL, Suppl., II, 369.

1407

Ibrahim b. Muhammad, d. 747 [13461. Cf. Ibn Hajar, ad-Durar al­kaminah, I, 54, who has the wrong date 739 [1338/391; al-Maqqari, Analectes, ed. R. Dozy et al. (Leiden, 1855-61), 1, 589 f., 91o f.; as-Suyuti, Bughyah (Cairo, 1326/1908), p. 189.

1408

Cf. 1:xliv and xlix, above.

1409

Cf. p. 303, above.

1410

Cf. p. 304 (n. 1186), above.

1411

Bulaq corrects "the biography of their Prophet" to "their ways of life," in order to be closer to the actual situation.

1412

The older texts have ma'anihim lahum (Bulaq maghanihim lahu), which seems to mean "and all their other interests."

1413

Cf. p. 341, above, and p. 383, below.

1414

Cf, pp. 396 f., below.

1415

The text from here to "urban and" (l. 21) is found in C in the margin and in the text of D. We have here an interesting example, not of homoeoteleuton omission (in the older texts), but of a homoeoteleuton addition by the author at a later stage.

1416

Qur'an 28.68 (68).