^{page 574 note 1} Muḥ. b. Abī Bakr al-Shillī, al-Mashra‘ al-rawī, Cairo, A.H. 1319, I, 141. A list of mosques also occurs in the British Museum MS al-Tiryāq of 'Umar b. Muḥ. Bā , f. 199a, but it adds nothing to the Mashra‘.

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^{page 574 note 3} Photocopy in SOAS, miracle no. 19.

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^{page 574 note 5} Ṣifat jazīrat al-'Arab, op cit., 180.

^{page 574 note 6} op. cit., 342, Dakyanus who flourished 300 years before Muhammad.

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^{page 575 note 3} It is interesting to remark that there were also presbyters from Ḥīrah and Abyssinia.

^{page 575 note 4} op. cit., p. cxvi, MS f. 24b.

^{page 575 note 5} Beckingham, C. F. and Serjeant, R. B., ‘A journey by two Jesuits from Dhufār to Ṣan ‘ā’ in 1590’, Geog. Jour., cxv, 4–5, 1950, 197.Google Scholar

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