45

Cf. also p. 952, below. Lower figures are given, for example, by Ibn Sayyid-an-nis, `Uyun al-athar, II, 216, who has 90,000 men and 10,000 horses.

46

Cf. n. 11 o to Ch. I, above.

47

Apparently, no specific passage is referred to here.

48

The "Arab Muslim dynasty" comprises the 'Abbasids and the Umayyads. Since, for Ibn Khaldun, the 'Abbasid dynasty as an independent power ended in the ninth/tenth century (cf., for instance, p. 951, below), he had to include the Spanish Umayyads, in order to give the "Arab Muslim dynasty" the longest duration of all Muslim dynasties.

49

Cf. p. 315, above.

50

Qur'an 40.85 (85).