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233 |
Cf.
Issawi, pp. 47-49. 177 |
234 |
Ibn
Khaldun has just mentioned them as belonging to the former
group. Cf. A. Schimmel, Ibn
Chaldun, p. 26 (n. 9). |
235 |
Cf.
pp. 292 f., below. |
235a |
Aymah means, in particular, "thirsting after milk." |
236 |
Cf.
Bombaci, p. 444. Yatta' may be specifically Euphorbia, but
below, p. 183, it is used as a general term for alkaloids taken
as cathartics. |
237 |
The
Merinid of Fez who ruled from 1331 to 1351 and was the
predecessor of Abu Inan, under whom Ibn Khaldun came to Fez. |
237a |
Or,
"when breaking their fast." This may be the preferable
translation, even though Ibn Khaldun does not seem to think of
ascetics in this passage. |
238 |
This
remark occurs in an appendix to L. Mercier's translation of Ibn
Hudhayl, La Parure des cavaliers
(Paris, 1924), p. 355. The author of the
appendix, however, is not the fourteenth-century Ibn Hudhayl, or
any other old author, but the modern Muhammad Pasha. Cf. GAL,
Suppl., II, 887. |
239 |
That
is, people familiar with works on agriculture such as the
Falahah an-Nabatiyah;
cf. 3:151 f., below. Cf. also n. 151 to Ch. iv. |
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