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246 |
This section is added in C by the
hand of the corrector. |
247 |
Cf. Issawi, pp. 141 f. |
248 |
Cf. 1:214 f., above. |
249 |
Cf. 3:281 f., 296, and 316 f., below. |
250 |
Dalil "indication" might be
translated "symbol" here. |
251 |
Cf. p. 20, above. |
252 |
That is, elementary arithmatic. Cf.
3:121 ff., below. The fact that Ibn Khaldun mentions it here
among the crafts would suggest that he has in mind its
accounting and bookkeeping aspects. |
253 |
As explained below in the section on
calculation, "combining" refers to addition and multiplication,
"separating" to subtraction and division. |
254 |
Cf. Qur'an 16.78 (80) and Qur'an 7.10
(9); 23.78 (80); 32.9 (8);67.23 (23). According to D, the
concluding words were replaced later by "Perhaps, you might be
grateful," a phrase from Qur'an 16.78 (80). C also gives
this, but the last lines of the section are aded by a later
hand. Cf. also p. 419, below, however, where we find the same
combination of different Qur'anic passages at a late stage in
the text of Muqaddimah. |
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