XXV. The Lives of ‘Umar, Ibnu’l-Farid and Muhiyyu'ddin Ibnu'l-'Arabi, extracted from the Shadharátu'l-Dhahab

The Shadharátu'l-Dhahab fi akhbári man dhahab , briefly described in the J.R.A.S. for 1899, p. 911 seq., is a biographical dictionary of persons who died between the years 1 and 1000 A.H., of which, besides the MS. in my possession, the only copy known to me is one belonging to the Khedivial Library in Cairo (Catalogue, vol. v, p. 72). Some idea of its extent may be gathered from the fact that the articles printed below form approximately a 200th part of the whole work. It is unquestionably a compilation of great value, the author, Abu'l-Faláḥ ‘Abdu’l-Ḥayy, having derived his material from many excellent sources which are not easily accessible to the modern Orientalist. When I first described the MS., I hoped that it might be possible to publish one or two of the longer articles by way of specimen. The names of ‘Umar Ibnu’l-Fáriḍ and Muḥiyyu'ddín Ibnu'l-'Arabí, whose lives I have selected for this purpose, are too celebrated to require any further introduction

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