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10. cUqud, IV, 324.
11. c Uqud, IV, 360.
12. cUqud, IV, 377—8. The English translation, I, 286, has Macqiliyy,
following the Arabic text, but Redhousc’s note, III, 161, n. 1066,givesMaqiliyy,
the ideal name, he suggests, for the place where one takes one’s
mid-day nap! Some of the verses are on IV, 378 80. Ghayat, 537, under year
793 (1390-1), mentions that the Zaydf imam, Salah al-bfn, built a palace at
Zafar. No other could compare with this palace except that built in Thacbat by
al-Malik al-Mu’ayyad, the author writes.
13. cUqud, IV, 380—1.
14. cUqud, IV, 382.
15. cUqiid, IV, 403.
16. cUqiid, V, 3-6; Lofgren, Arabische Texte, 113; Ghayat, 495, who calls
the wazTr Amir Yusuf b. Mansur.
17. cUqud, V, 60-1 and 125-6; C. J. Johannscn, Historia lemenae (Ibn
aI-Daybac, Bughyat al-MustaJTd JT A khbar Madinat Zabid, Bonn 1828, 164;
Ghayat, 519, under the year 764 (1362-3), the year of the death of al-Mujahid.
Could this have been the mosque which Niebuhr saw? Cf. n. 4 above.
18. cUqud, V, 62—5; Arabische Texte, 227-9.
19. QUqud, V, 127.
20. cUqiid, V, 223. This is a stock epithet given to a town of some
importance.
21. cUqiid, V, 234.
22. cUqud, V, 239.
23. cUqud, V, 265.
24. Ghayat, 565.
25. I am grateful to Mr N. M. Lowick of the British Museum with whom I
was able to discuss this section and who gave me valuable information on the
unpublished coins in the British Museum.
26. Cf. W. F. Prideaux, ‘Coins of the Benee Rasool Dynasty of South
Arabia’, Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI,
1883-5, 12-13; S. Lane-Poole, Catalogue of the Oriental Coins of the British
Museum, London 1890, X, 60 and H. Niitzel, ‘Miinzen der Rasuliden nebst
einem Abriss der Geschichte dieser jemenischen Dynastie*, Zeitschrift fur
Numismatik, XVIII, 1892, 127.
27. The earliest coin struck in Tacizz which has been traced is one dated
594/1197-8. Cf. P. Balog, ‘Dirhems ayoubites inedits du Yemen\ Bulletin de
TInstitut Egyptien, 1953-4, 350.
28. Cf. E. de Zambaur, Munzpragungen des Islam, Wiesbaden 1968, 89.
29. There is an unpublished coin of this date in the B.M. There was probably I
a much longer break in the minting of coins in Tacizz between the years
669-740/1270-1340. There is another unpublished B.M. coin of the former
date and for the latter, cf. Zambaur, Munzpragungen, 89.
30. ‘Coins’, 9.
31. It should be stressed that the number of Rasulid coins preserved cannot
be fully representative of RasOlid mint activity as a whole. Fresh issues may
come to light which might necessitate the alteration of the views expressed here.
32. Munzpragungen, 94.

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