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Footaotesto the Haraziyya foreyord, Chip 4
1. See pp. __ sef^.
2. Sheikh Muhammad bm Said bin Hamad al-Busiri was born
in Sgypt at the village of Busiri in A.H. 608 (A.D.1212)
duriag the reiga of il-Malikil Adil bin dyyub, one of the
Bani Ayyub, desoendanta of the famous Salah-ed-Din. Al-
Busiry, as he is popularly known, was a distinguished
wrifcer and saholar and the most promjment poet of his
tirae in ^gypt. Fe died in khsxyRKx 698 .F. (A.D.1296)
dunng the reign of the Maraeluke Ketbagha
P. This paper has been xdentified by the Bbitish Museum
as havmg been raade by
in
4. it will thus be noted thet the bookform manusoript
as distinot from the soroll, was in use on the Swahili
coast ln the 1700*8. The manuscript, says Muh. Kijuraa,
was criginally m a leathern cover whioh hsa fallen to
decay.
5. ftote on soribe.
b. See Ghap. II, p.
7. See Chap. ll.p._ |
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