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A. H. 295 (A. D. 807–8). This is the date of Al-Muḳtadir s accession, who reigned till A. H. 320 (A. D. 932); cf. W. Muir, The Caliphate, p. 559. The life of Manṣûr-al-Hallaj is given in Fihrist (ed. Flügel), p. 190. The life of 'Abd-al-Ḳâdir of Jîlân is given in Jami's Nafahat (ed. Lee), p. 584. The Hakkari country is a dependency of Mosul, and inhabited by Kurds and Nestorians; cf. p. 104. Ibn Ḫauḳal, Kîtab al-Masâlik wal-Mamâlik (ed. M. J. De Goeje), pp. 143 f. Yakut, IV, 373, calls it Lailes and says that §eih 'Adî lived there. Presumably Yezid bn Mu'awiya, the second caliph in the Omayyid dynasty, who reigned, A. D. 680-83; cf. W. Muir, The Caliphate, p. 327. The life of Hasan al-Basrt is given in Ibn Hallikan. He is not to be identified w'th Hasan al-Basri (died no A. H., who, according to Mohammedan tradition, first pointed the Koran text, with the assistance of Yahya bn Yamar. In Menant's Yzidis, 48, the names of these seven angels are somewhat differently given. According to Mohammedan tradition Zazil or Azazil was the original name of the devil.  By the "throne" here is meant the throne of God, and by the "carpet" the earth; cf. Sura 60: 131.  According to Moslem belief, wheat was the forbidden fruit; see Baiḍâwi on Sura, ii, 33.