[Footnote 38: See the Chronology of the Atabeks of Irak and
Syria, in De Guignes, tom. i. p. 254; and the reigns of
Zenghi and Noureddin in the same writer, (tom. ii. p. ii. p.
147 - 221,) who uses the Arabic text of Benelathir, Ben
Schouna and Abulfeda; the Bibliotheque Orientale, under the
articles Atabeks and Noureddin, and the Dynasties of
Abulpharagius, p. 250 - 267, vers. Pocock.]