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xxv Notes to the Frontmatter 1 Al-Dhahabī, Siyar, 10:15. 2 Melchert, Ibn Hanbal, viii. 3 On his life see Laoust, “Ibn al-Jawzī,” which erroneously gives his birthdate as 510/1126 instead of 510/1116. 4 I thank Joseph Lowry for pointing this out during the December 2011 meeting of the Library of Arabic Literature editorial board. 5 Segzin, GAS, 1:503. The entry mentions (1) a manuscript designated Berlin 1455, dated 565/1169–70 and possibly an autograph, which I have not been able to trace; (2) Chester Beatty 5267, dated to the eighth/fourteenth century, also untraced; (3) Ẓāhiriyyah Taʾrīkh 58, which, to judge by the description, is identical with Ẓāhiriyyah 3423; (4) Ẓāhiriyyah ʿĀmm 4579, also eighth/fourteenth century, also untraced; and (5) the Cairo edition of 1932. For additional manuscripts, see the discussion of al-Turkī’s editions. 6 A name given to persons from two villages, one near Damascus and the other near Balkh (al-Samʿānī, Al-Ansāb, 2:164–65). 7 Transcribed by al-Turkī as al-F*z*rlī. Neither possibility is attested in al-Samʿānī’s Ansāb. I have chosen al-Farazlī because of the appearance of the word in the manuscript and because the name, apparently so pronounced, exists today in Lebanon. 8 Transcribed by al-Turkī with a yāʾ after the first shīn, as in the modern name, which is apparently pronounced as I have given it here. In the manuscript, however, it is not all clear that there is a yāʾ there. Neither possibility is attested in al-Samʿānī’s Ansāb. 9 A name given to persons from the town of Raʾs ʿAyn in Diyār Bakr (al-Samʿānī, Al-Ansāb, 3:64–65). 10 Confirmed by al-Turkī, Manāqib, 1st ed., 21. Al-Turkī’s second revised edition unfortunately omits pages 21–25 of his introduction to the first edition. 11 Ibid. This pirated edition seems to have been first issued in 1973 (Harvard Hollis). 12 Ibid., 22–25. 13 Al-Turkī gives a date of “approximately 530,” corresponding to 1135 or 36, but this cannot be right, as Ibn al-Jawzī would have been only ten at the time. This page intentionally left blank ...

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