|
577 |
Sic C and D. The
earlier texts read: "the existing things and their accidents." |
578 |
"Negatively or positively" is added in C and
D. |
579 |
Cf. p. 129, below. |
580 |
Ibn Khaldun devotes no special section to
music, though he seems originally to have intended to do so. Cf.
2:339, above. |
581 |
That
is, elementary arithmetic. |
582 |
Cf.
Qur'an 2.102 (96). The passage refers to Babel, but it would be
difficult to include the Persians and the Greeks, in addition to
the Copts, among the antecedents of "them" in the preceding
sentence. Cf. p. 159, below. For al-matluw,
cf. 1:192, 260, and 437, above; p.
284, below. |
583 |
The
sorcerers of Pharaoh, as described in the Qur'an. |
584 |
Cf.
p. 160, below. Instead of "informed persons," A and B simply
have "people" (ahl al-'alam). |
585 |
The
translation follows the reading
ikhtiyariha of C and D.
Ikhtibariha "their
exploration," as in A and B, also yields a satisfactory meaning. |
586 |
The
word "however," which is not found in the slightly different
text of Bulaq, seems to express some misgivings as to how the
Muslims could have found so many books if Alexander had
appropriated (and, after their translation, destroyed) them at a
much earlier date. |
587 |
This is a variant of the famous legend, according
to which 'Umar ordered the destruction of the celebrated library
in Alexandria. Cf., for instance, M. Meyerhof, "Joannes
Grammatikos (Philoponos) von Alexandrien and die arabische
Medizin," Mitteilungen des Deutschen
Instituts fur Agyptische Altertumskunde in Kairo, II
(1991), 9 f.
Ibn Khaldun, 'Ibar,
III, 597, mentions that after the
conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the Tatars threw many scientific
books into the Tigris, thus imitating what the Muslims had done
at the beginning of Islam with the books and sciences of the
Persians. Cf. also 2:219, above. |
588 |
Cf.
'Ibar, II,
188: Since Plato (sic) walked while teaching in a
stoa, his, pupils were called "Peripatetics." Knowing little
about the Stoics, the inability of the Arabs to distinguish
clearly between Stoics and Peripatetics is easily explained. |
589 |
Cf.
B. Heller in El, s.v.
"Lullman." The Greek sage considered to have
lived at the time of King David and to have studied with Luqman,
is said to have been Empedocles. Cf. M. Asin Palacios, "Ibn
Masarra y su escuela," in Obras
Escogidas, I, 55. |
590 |
For this confusion of Socrates with Diogenes,
cf., for instance, alMubashshir b. Fatik,
Mukhtar al-hikam, on
the life of Socrates; al-Qifti, Ta'rikh
al-hukama', ed. Muller-Lippert
(Leipzig, 19os), p. 197; F. Rosenthal
in Islamic Culture, XIV (1940),
388. |
591 |
Cf.
also 1:275 (n. 75), above, and pp. 116, 139, 153, and 249,
below. |
592 |
Cf.
p. 6, above. Mukhalladah is
clearly indicated in A, B, and C. |
593 |
Cf.
Bombaci, p. 457. |
594 |
For the following
remarks, cf. p. 250, below. |
595 |
Ikhtassuhu,
as in Bulaq, A, B, and C. |
596 |
Mubammad b. Yahya, d. 533 [1138/39]. Cf. GAL, I,
460; suppl.,
I, 830. Cf. also p. 443, below. |
597 |
The
reference to Jabir was added when Ibn Khaldun was in the East.
It is found in the margin of C and in the text of D. |
598 |
Qur'an 6.137 (138). Cf. also Qur'an 6.112 (112). |
599 |
Cf.
Bombaci, p. 457. |
600 |
Masud b. 'Umar, 722-792 [1322-1390]. Cf. GAL, II,
215; Suppl., II, 301 ff. The
date of his birth seems to be correct as indicated (cf. C. A.
Storey in EI, s.v. "al-Taftazani"), although Ibn Hajar,
ad-Durar al-kaminah
(Hyderabad, 1348-50/1929-31), IV, 350, and the
other biographers cited in GAL, who
follow Ibn Hajar, have 712 [1312/13]. Cf. also p. 315, below.
Ibn Khaldun seems to have said, "numerous works
on the intellectual sciences,"
but Bulaq is certainly correct in omitting
this addition. A correction to "on the traditional sciences,"
found in a minor MS, has nothing to recommend itself. |
601 |
Qur'an 3.13 ( 11). Bulaq completes the quotation. |
602 |
Qur'an 28.68 (68). |
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