There was a stout defence of a detached post at Ibn Obeid.

The few commanding figures among the governors, Ibn-Tulun, the Ikshid, Kafur, were foreigners, and even these were but a step above the stereotyped official.

Ibn-Furat, the wazir, had made himself obnoxious to the people by arrests and extortions.

All these matters were fully reported to Moizz by the renegade Jew Yakub Killis, a former favorite of Kafur, who had been driven from Egypt by the jealous exactions of the wazir, Ibn-Furat, and who was perfectly familiar with the political and financial state of the Nile valley.

Every Saturday he sat in court, assisted by the wazir Ibn-Furat, the cadi, and skilled lawyers, to hear causes and petitions and to administer justice.

He armed the Egyptians as well as the African troops, and a spy was set to watch the wazir Ibn-Furat, lest he should be guilty of treachery.

There was no more intriguing on behalf of the Ikshidids; Tinnis was recovered from its temporary defection and occupied by the reinforcements which Moizz had hurriedly despatched under Ibn-Ammar to the succor of Gawhar; and the Karmati fleet, which attempted to recover this fort, was obliged to slip anchor, abandoning seven ships and five hundred prisoners.

But before he left his native place he must have finished his epic, at least in its rough form; for we know that in 999 he dedicated it to Ahmad ibn Muhammad of Chalandsha.

SEE Joseph Ben Meir Ibn Zabara.

From an original Turki manuscript by Ahmad, descended of Karu Yunif Ibn Kara Yakub, the year 1357.

© 5Jun42; AA402394. 7Jul69; R464319. 'ABD UL-BAHA IBN BAHA ULLAH.

SEE 'Abd Ul-Baha Ibn Baha Ullah.

SEE 'Abd Ul-Baha Ibn Baha Ullah.

SEE 'Abd Ul-Baha Ibn Baha Ullah.

SEE Taylor, Cecil H. USAMAH IBN MURSHID (MU'AIYID AL-DAULAH) called IBN MUNKID.

SEE Taylor, Cecil H. USAMAH IBN MURSHID (MU'AIYID AL-DAULAH) called IBN MUNKID.

An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the crusades; memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh (Kitab al-I'tibar) translated from the original manuscript by Philip K. Hitti.

JOSEPH BEN MEIR IBN ZABARA.

SEE 'Abd Ul-Baha Ibn Baha Ullah.

AL FARMOUZI, YOHANNA IBN.

SEE IBN AL FARMOUZI, YOHANNA.

It is curious that an Arabian author of the thirteenth century, Ibn Khaldoun, cited by M. Lefébure, offers the same account of how the visions appear as that given by Miss Angus in the Journal of the S.P.R., April 1898.

I append M. Lefébure's quotation from Ibn Khaldoun.

'Ibn Kaldoun admet que certains hommes ont la faculté de deviner l'avenir. '"Ceux, ajoute-t-il, qui regardent dans les corps diaphanes, tels que les miroirs, les cuvettes remplies d'eau et les liquides; ceux qui inspectent les coeurs, les foies et les os des animaux, ... tous ces gens-là appartiennent aussi à la catégorie des devins, mais, à cause de l'imperfection de leur nature, ils y occupent un rang inférieur.

"In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found; Thine the star-pointing roof, and the base on the ground: Is one half depicted with colors less bright? Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!" IBN JEMIN.