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(0 Tacitus, C.Cornelius. J.B. Bury, op. cit. 228-232; Norman
Austin, op. cit. 39 ff; George Sarton, IHS, I, 263; W.R.F. Tongue, "Taci-
tus" in NCE, XIII, 911, 912, mentions C.W. Mendell, Tacitus, the Man
and his works (1957) and R. Syma, Tacitus, 2 vols. (1958). His Annals
is cited in A.J. Toynbee's SOH, 111, 78; The Annals of Imperial Rome, tr.
with an introduction by Michael Grant (1963), pp. 442; Thomas Alan
Dorey, Tacitus, chapters by T.A. Dorey and ors (1969). pp. XII+ 180;
EB, XXI, 60@602 (useful bibliography).
(G) See the works of al-Wiqidi on the conquest of individual
towns and countries culminating in the Futiib al-Buldtin of al-Balidhuri.
Ibn 'Abdu'l-Hakam (803-870) wrote a history of the conquest of Egypt,
Africa and Spain, KitEb Fufiih Mip Wa'l-Andalus by Charles C. Torrey
(1922), tr. into Spanish with critical notes by E. Vidal Beltran, (1966).
Ibn A'tham al-Kfifi (d. ca. 3141926) calls his book Kitiib al-Fut* (Book
of Conquests). Eight volumes of this book have so far been published by
the DZ'irat al-Ma'Erif of Hyderabad.
(H) Usiil al-Hadith; The Mqfalab al-Hadith and Ma'rifat ar-
RgEl taken together may be called Up21 al-Hadith. Sek KitZb Ma'rifat
'Uliim al-Hadith by Muhammad bin 'Abdullah al-Hifiz An-Nishipiir,
edited and annotated by Syed Mn'azzam Husain, (Cairo, 1937), pp. 266;
KitEb 'Uliim al-Hadith, commonly known as the Muqaddima of Ibn as-
Salih (Aleppo, 1931) pp. 421 ; and Ibn Hajar aL6Asqalini's Nukhbat
al-Fikr fi mugal& al-Athar. There is a substantial article on Upil by
Joseph Schacht in the EI(l), IV, 1054-1058, (short and informative biblio-
graphy but deals more with Fiqh than with Hadith). Arabic trans. in DMI,
111, 482-506 with detailed critical comments. See Farid Wajdi's paper
on Hadith in DM, 111,360-376; at-Thinawi, Hadith in KIF, I, 279-282 and
translator's note 'G' to M. Kirnil 'Ayiid's paper, referred to below.
(I) Here Togan perhaps tefers to Johannes Wilhelm fick's paper
published in Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1015 (Leiden, 1953), pp. 196-99; Dt is
mentioned also by Bertold Spuler. See his paper below]. See the review
of Schacht's The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence.
(J) At-Tabari, see translator's note 'W' to M. Kiimil 'Ayid's
paper above.
(K) Nicholson & Fischel. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, British
Orientalist: born, August 19, 1868. See for his biography "The Dervish"
in the Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Scholars by A.J. Arbeny (1960),