[Footnote 54: These literary anecdotes are borrowed from the
Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, (tom. ii. p. 38, 71, 201, 202,)
Leo Africanus, (de Arab. Medicis et Philosophis, in Fabric.
Bibliot. Graec. tom. xiii. p. 259 - 293, particularly p.
274,) and Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 274, 275,
536, 537,) besides the chronological remarks of
Abulpharagius.]