[Footnote 38: See Abulfeda, (Annal. Moslem. p. 136 - 145,)
Eutychius, (Annal. tom. ii. p. 392, vers. Pocock,) Elmacin,
(Hist. Saracen. p. 109 - 121,) Abulpharagius, (Hist. Dynast.
p. 134 - 140,) Roderic of Toledo, (Hist. Arabum, c. xviii.
p. 33,) Theophanes, (Chronograph. p. 356, 357, who speaks of
the Abbassides) and the Bibliotheque of D'Herbelot, in the
articles Ommiades, Abbassides, Moervan, Ibrahim, Saffah,
Abou Moslem.]