An Arabic Account of the Province of Safed—I

Bernard Lewis

doi:10.1017/S0041977X00111449

An Arabic Account of the Province of Safed—I

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009

Bernard Lewis

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Arabic manuscript no. 4525 in the Istanbul University Library consists of what appears to be the first part of a history of Safed. The manuscript bears no indication either of the title of the work or of the name of its author. The text begins on the second page; the first contains only a brief quotation on Safed from the Mu‘jam al-buldān of Yāqūt.

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Information: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , October 1953 , pp. 477 - 488

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00111449 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1953

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^{page 477 note 1} Ḥājjī alifa, Ka f aẓ-ẓunūn, ed. Flügel, ii, 135, no. 2241; ed. Istanbul, , i, 297.Google Scholar Cf. Brockelmann, , GAL. S. i, 568.Google Scholar

^{page 477 note 2} Ṣubḥ al-a‘ ā, Cairo, 1914, iv, 149 ff.Google Scholar (= Gaudefroy-Demombynes, La Syrie à l'époqite des Mamelouks, Paris, 1923, 118 ff.Google Scholar). See also pp. 74–5 (= Gaudefroy-Demombynes, 4–5).

^{page 477 note 3} Abū'l-Maḥasin ibn Tarī-Birdī, An-nujūm az-zāhira, ed. Popper, W., California, 1936, v, 273 and 296.Google Scholar For further details on ‘Alamdār see ibid, 149 and 613; Maqrīzī, iṭaṭ (Bulaq edition), ii, 304–5; Wiet, G., Les Biographies du Manhal Ṣāfi, Cairo, 1932Google Scholar, Mem. Inst. Eg. xix, p. 224, no. 1531.Google Scholar

^{page 477 note 4} Ka f, ed. Flügel, , iii, 351Google Scholar, no. 5890; ed. Istanbul, , i, 836.Google ScholarGAL. ii, 91, S ii, 107.Google Scholar

^{page 477 note 5} The corresponding passage of the Masālik may be seen in MS. Saray 2797 ii, pp. 450–2.

^{page 477 note 6} ams ad-Dīn Abū ‘Abdallah Muḥammad ad-Dimaqī, Nu bat ad-dahr fī ‘ajā’ib al-barr wa'l-baḥr, ed. M. A. F. Mehren, St. Petersburg, 1866, reprinted Leipzig, 1923. French translation by Mehren, Copenhagen, 1874. Dimaqī spent his last years in Safed, where he died in 727/1327. The relevant passages occur on pp. 117–18 and 210–13 of the text.

^{page 478 note 1} In an obituary notice on the āfi‘ī jurist Isma‘īl b. alifa (d. 778/1376), Ibn Ḥajar (Inbāal- umr, MS. B.M. Add 7321 Rich, fol. 26b) quotes a statement from his biography by ‘al-‘Umānī, qāḍī of Safed’. There is, however, no reason to assume that this quotation comes from the Tr'rī Ṣafad. The jurist in question is of late date, and seems to have no connexion with Safed; the biography almost certainly comes from ‘Umānī's Ṭahaqāt al-fuqahā’ (cf. GAL S. ii, 108). My thanks are due to Mr. Hasan Habashi for drawing my attention to this passage, as also for his careful proof-reading of my text.

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^{page 479 note 2} Q 149 should be amended.

^{page 479 note 3} Qur'ān 14. 50 and 38. 37.

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^{page 481 note 2} D 118 and Q 75 should be amended.

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^{page 484 note 8} Thus the text, and the modern form of the name. In Q 153 the word is unpointed, but the editors quote the reading from another source. This reading is tacitly accepted by Gaudefroy-Demombynes 122.