[Footnote 166: The name of Andalusia is applied by the Arabs
not only to the modern province, but to the wholc peninsula
of Spain (Geograph. Nub. p. 151; D'Herbelot, Biblioth
Orient. p. 114, 1l5) . The etymolo& gy has been most
improbably deduced from Vandalusia, country of the Vandals
(D'A l'Europe, p. 146, 147, etc.). But the Handalusia of
Casiri, which signifies, in& Arabic, the region of the
evening, of the West, in a word, the Hesperia of the Greeks,
is perfectly apposite (Biblioth. Arabico-Hispana, tom. ii.p.
327 etc.)]