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66. Al-Hasan al-Isfahani, 400.
67. Yaqut, IV, 81!
68. AI-MaqdisI, 68-9.
69. Al-Istakhrl, 19.
70. Yaqiit, IV, 513.
71. Secal-SamhudI, IV, 1305.
72. Ibid., 1305, 1329.
73. Abu M-Fida’, Taqwim al-Buldan, Geographic ... tcxte arabe, ed.
Rcinaud and MacGuckin dc Slanc, Paris, 1840, 89.
74. Muhammad Kibrlt al-Madani, ‘Rihlat al-shita’ wa-’l-sayf’, MS.
Cambridge University Library, No. Qq 158, fol. 120.
75. Ibrahim b. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Khiyari al-Madani, Tuhfat al-
Udaba’ wa-sahvat al-ghurabd\ cd. M. al-Samarra’I.
76. ‘Abd al-Ghaniyy Isma‘il an-NabulsI, ‘al-Haqlqah wa-’l-majaz fi
rihlat bilad al-Sham wa-Misr wa-’l-Hijaz’, MS, Cambridge University
Library, No. Qq 300, fol. 379.
77. H. St. John Philby, The Land of Midian, London, 1957, 16.
78. Doughty, 145.
79. Abu Shamah al-MaqdisI al-Dimashqi Tarajim rijal al-qarnayn al-
sadis wa-'l-sabi', Cairo, 1947, 142.
80. Muhammad al-‘AbdarI, al-Rihlah al-Maghribiyyah, Rabat, 1968,
220.
81. Doughty, 161.
82. Al-Fayruzabadi, 82.
83. Al-Samhudi, IV, 1280.
84. F.S. Vidal, El2 art. ‘al-Hidjr’, 365.
85. Al-‘AbbasI (A. b. ‘Abd al-Hamld), *Umdat al-akhbar, pub. A.
Drabzuni, Cairo, c. 1965,381.
86. Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa, trans. H.A.R. Gibb,
London, 1929, 74.
87. Musil, 218, n.52.
88. Lisan al-'Arab, II, art. ‘b-y-t’, 321.
89. Doughty, 161. See also his map.
90. Mission archtologique en Arabie, II, 26.
91. Preliminary Survey, 202-3.
92. Doughty, 333.
93. Preliminary Survey, 199.
94. Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih, al-Tqd ql-farid, III, Cairo, 1293 A.H., 241.
95. G. Levi della Vida in El1, art. “Udrah*, p.990, quotes Ahlwardt,
and Yaqut, who say that al-Nu‘man, is Nu‘man III, king of al-HIrah whilst
the Arabic sources, among whom is Yaqut, speak of al-Nu‘man b. al-
Harith al-Ghassanl, who was king of the Ghassanids of Syria not of al-
ai-HIrah. However, among the kings of al-HIrah, several were named
al-Nu‘man, and it is possible that this is the cause of the confusion. (See
Yaqut, IV, 82).
96. Al-BakrI, 1,43-4.
97. Ibn Sa‘d, I, 66-9.
98. Al-BakrI, I, 64-6, concerning the cultivation of grape-vines in Wadi