[Footnote 173: This gradation of merit is distinctly marked
in a creed illustrated by Reland, (de Relig. Mohamm. l. i.
p. 37;) and a Sonnite argument inserted by Ockley, (Hist. of
the Saracens, tom. ii. p. 230.) The practice of cursing the
memory of Ali was abolished, after forty years, by the
Ommiades themselves, (D'Herbelot, p. 690;) and there are few
among the Turks who presume to revile him as an infidel,
(Voyages de Chardin, tom. iv. p. 46.)]