[Footnote 184: D'Herbelot, p. 342. The enemies of the
Fatimites disgraced them by a Jewish origin. Yet they
accurately deduced their genealogy from Jaafar, the sixth
Imam; and the impartial Abulfeda allows (Annal. Moslem. p.
230) that they were owned by many, qui absque controversia
genuini sunt Alidarum, homines propaginum suae gentis exacte
callentes. He quotes some lines from the celebrated Scherif
or Rahdi, Egone humilitatem induam in terris hostium? (I
suspect him to be an Edrissite of Sicily,) cum in Aegypto
sit Chalifa de gente Alii, quocum ego communem habeo patrem
et vindicem.]