1368

Cf. Issawi, pp. 151-53.

1369

Kayfiyah "know-how."

1370

Cf. 2:367, above.

1371

Cf. 2:364, above.

1372

Cf. p. 323, above.

1373

Shawahid "evidential verses," usually by pre-Islamic or early Islamic poets, were used to illustrate a point of grammar or lexicography.

1374

Bombaci, p. 468, follows a translation by Silvestre de Sacy: "They (the students) have tried to acquire it completely through study. Thus they have succeeded in being able to express better that which they want to express.

1375

Added in C and D.

1376

C and D: "in those regions and the cities belonging to it."

1377

This sentence is not found in Bulaq.

1378

Cf. Bombaci, p. 468.

1379

Cf. p. 318 (n. 1231), above.