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216 Notes
15 'Amri, Rawda, p. 463.
16 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 5, p. 375.
17 Ibid.; al-Maqrizi, Al-Khitat (Cairo: Maktaba al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya,
1987), vol. 2, p. 285; Ibn al-Athir, Kamil, vol. 7, p. 477; 'Abdallah
Inan, Al-hakim bi'amri Allah (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1947).
18 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 5, p. 375.
19 Ibid.
20 Maqrizi, Khitat, vol. 2, p. 288.
21 Henry Corbin, Histoire de la philosophic islamique (Paris: Gallimard,
1964), pp. 128ff.
22 Ibn al-Nadim, Al-fihris (Beirut: Dar al-Ma'rifa, 1978), p. 267.
23 Encyclopedia of Islam, article on 'Isma'iliyya'. One can imagine the
friction that this manner of calculating could create between Isma'ilis
and Sunnis, especially when it came to fixing the month of Ramadan.
24 M. Canard, 'La procession du Nouvel An chez les Fatimides', Annales
de I'lnstitut d'Etudes Orientales (Algiers), 10 (1952), p. 375.
25 Maqrizi, Khitat, p. 288.
26 Ibn al-Athir, Kamil, vol. 8, p. 128.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid., p. 129.
29 Ibid.
30 Hanbali, Shazarat (see ch. 1 n. 31 above), vol. 3, p. 194.
31 Maqrizi, Khitat, vol. 2, p. 288.
32 For a discussion of the attitudes of hate and contempt toward the
people, al-'amma, see the excellent summary in the article on it in the
Encyclopedia of Islam. Also consult the books on proper behaviour
for courtiers, like the essay attributed to al-Jahiz in Le Livre de la
couronne (Kitab al-taj), which is an instructional manual on court
etiquette, or how to please the prince. The basic idea is to humble
oneself. Any show of dignity or self-respect annoys the leader. See al-
Jahiz, Le livre de la couronne, tr. Charles Pellat (Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 1954), p. 49.
33 Ibn Battuta, Travels of Ibn Battuta (see ch. In. 10 above), vol. 1, p.
41. However, it must be pointed out that the Cairo described by Ibn
Battuta is the Cairo of the fourteenth century AD. Ibn Battuta, who
was born in Tangier in 1304, made his first trip to Mecca in 1326. It
was during this journey that he visited Egypt for the first time. I quote
Ibn Battuta for the beauty of his description and its accuracy even for
the Cairo of today. But for a description of the Cairo of al-Hakim,
one should read Maqrizi, Khitat, where one finds a description of the
city practically quarter by quarter, and especially a wealth of details
about the public buildings.
34 Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 5, p. 293; Maqrizi, Khitat, vol. 2, p. 285.
35 Maqrizi, Khitat, vol. 2, p. 286; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat, vol. 5, p. 393.
36 Maqrizi, Khitat, vol. 2, p. 289.