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^{page 257 note 2} A description of this mosque is to be found in Zanzibar, the island metropolis of Eastern Africa, by Pearce, F. B., pp. 418–9.Google Scholar

^{page 258 note 1} It may be due to the restoration of 1184 h. (a.h. 1770) recorded by a naskhi inscription of the miḥrâb, cf. loc. cit. inscription 3.

^{page 258 note 2} This word has been kindly suggested by Mr. W. Marçais.

^{page 260 note 1} According to Aly Bey Bahgat this verse is frequently to be found in tombs of saints.

^{page 260 note 2} Kind communication of Mr. R. Guest and Professor Snouck Hurgronje.

^{page 260 note 3} Cf. Pearce, F. B., loc. cit., p. 419 top.Google Scholar

^{page 260 note 4} A, B represent the characters of Plates I and II, C those of Plates III and IV.

^{page 261 note 1} Cf. Flury, , Die Ornamente, der Hakim und Ashar Moschee, pl. xviiiGoogle Scholar, and Creswell, A., A brief Chronology of the Muḥammadan Monuments of Egypt, pi. iv, A.Google Scholar

^{page 262 note 1} The same observation applies to the architectural features of the miḥrâb (cf. Plate III); they at once recall a well-known series of miḥrâbs, one of the oldest of which is to be found in the mosque of Ibn Ṭûlûn at Cairo.

^{page 263 note 1} Cf. loc. cit., p. 418.

^{page 263 note 2} Cf. Flury, , Islamische Schriftbänder, Amida-Diarbekr, p. 31Google Scholar; translated into French in the Revue Syria, vol. ii, p. 61.Google Scholar

^{page 263 note 3} Cf. loc. cit., pl. x.

^{page 264 note 1} Cf. Diez, E., Churasanische Baudenkmäler, Plates II and III.Google Scholar

^{page 264 note 2} Cf. Flury, , Islamische Schriftänder, Plates XIV, 1, 4, 7, 15, 16 f., and lâm-alif.Google Scholar

^{page 264 note 3} Cf. loc. cit., p. 51.