58

This and the following sections, (13) and the later text of (14), are found in C on an inserted sheet.

59

Cf. pp. 315 f., above.

60

Cf. Issawi, pp. 75 f.

61

That is, the payments that the holder of a fief exacts from his tenants.

62

From here to the end of the section, E reads: ". . . and people are compelled to buy food. Thus, food merchants get some compensation for fluctuations of the market (resulting in low prices) through the general (large) demand for the goods they hold, namely, foodstuffs. Thus, they receive some compensation for (the profit) that would escape them (because of the low prices)."

63

Intimating that a low price for foodstuffs is not economically sound, but generally desired and politically desirable.

64

Qur'an 51.58 (58).