See D'Herbelot, (Bibliot. Orientale, p. 411,) Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 390, 397, 400, 401,) Elmacin, (Hist. Saracen. p. 321 - 323,) and Marei, (p. 384 - 386,) an historian of Egypt, translated by Reiske from Arabic into German, and verbally interpreted to me by a friend.