Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In cataloguing the Oriental MSS. of the John Rylands Library, I came across an unknown and semi-official defence of Islam. The MS, containing it is in some places in a bad state of preservation, but apart from about ten words which have completely faḍed away, the text has been read and translated, and it is hoped that the book, accompanied by a critical apparatus, will shortly be published by the Governors of the Library at the Manchester University Press.
page 481 note 1 I shall gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor D. S. Margoliouth, of Oxford, for help in the decipherment of some half obliterated words. The MS. is written in Baghdad in 616/1219
page 483 note 1 In the Introduction I have collected all the available data concerning his life and his works.
page 486 note 1 Incidentally we may remark that the prevalent opinion (Brock. i, 231) that he was of Jewish origin is erroneous