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Ibn Khaldun uses two words for "bridge," which
are not consistently differentiated in meaning. One is used for
bridges over deep gorges, the other for bridges over wide
rivers, by Abu 1-Hasan al-'Amiri, al-I'lam
bimanaqib al-Islam, MS. Istanbul,
Ragib, 1463, fol. 4b. Cf. also al-Jawaligi, Sharh Adab
al-Katib (Cairo, 1350/1931-32), pp. 71 f.; Qajikhan,
Fatawi (Calcutta, 1835), IV, 84. |
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Cf. al-Bakri's Masalik in de Slane's
translation, Description de l'Afrique septentrionale (2d
ed.; Algiers, 1913), p. 43, Cf. 1:74 (n. 8), above.
Here again, Ibn Khaldun quotes al-Bakri from
memory and adds an element, the copper vessel, which is also
known from The Arabian Nights. Cf. also W. Hoenerbach,
Das nordafrikanische Itinerar des 'Abdari
(Abhandlungen fur die Kunde des
Morgenlandes, No. 25) (Leipzig, 1940), p. 75. |
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But
cf. above, p. 136. Cf. also p. 376 below. |
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New
Fez was founded in 674 [1276]. Cf.
'Ibar, VII, 195;
de Slane (tr.), IV, 84;
H. Terrasse, Histoire du
Maroc, II, 30 f. |
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This
paragraph is added in the margin of C and then appears in the
text of D. The event referred to took place in 789 [1387],
under Abu 1-'Abbas. Cf.
'Ibar, V1, 597
f.; de Slane (tr.), III, 113; R.
Brunschvig, La Berberie orientate,
I, 194. |
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'Ali' ad-din al-Kindi, 640-716 [1242/43-1316.
Cf. GAL, II, 9;
Suppl., II, 2; Ibn Hajar,
ad-Durar al-kaminah, III, 130 ff,
in his
Tadhkirah, wrote as follows: "Do not
stay in a place where there is no flowing river, no active
business, and no just judge, learned physician, or forceful
ruler. Have cities built only where there is water and
opportunities for pasturage and collecting firewood." (Quoted
from as-Suyuti, Kawkab ar-Rawllah,
MS. Ar. Princeton 601 = 179
H, fol. 2b.)
In this and similar forms, the saying has been popular in Arabic
wisdom literature since the ninth century. Cf. Ibn Qutaybah,
'Uyun, I, 6, 215;
'Ali b. Rabban at-Tabarl,
Firdaws al-hikmah, ed.
M. Z. Siddiqi (Berlin, 1928), p. 576;
al-Mubashshir, Mukhtar
al-hikam, among the sayings attributed
to Hermes (cf. H. Knust, Mittheilungen
aus dem Eskurial, p. 105); ar-Righib al-Isfahani,
Muhadarat, II, 950. |
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The
reference to the Hijaz was omitted in Bulaq, apparently for the
good reason that it does not make much sense. |
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Cf.
p. 269, below. |
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The principal port for Constantine. Cf. R.
Brunschvig, La Berberie orientale,
I, 288. |
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