[1] Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidentums_, p. 226.
[2] I have avoided further details here, as I have dealt with this
subject, at length, in my _Contributions to the History of Islamic
Civilisation_, pp. 146-169.
[3] Deutsch, _Literary Remains_, p. 87. For further information see Von
Kremer, _Culturgeschichtliche Streifzüge_ (my translation, p. 49.)
[4] Wellhausen, _Reste_, pp. 230-231.
[5] Lyall, _Ancient Arabian Poetry_, p. 93.
[6] In Wellhausen’s _Reste_, p. 229 will be found the passage in
question from Imra-ul-Qais.
[7] Journal of the Asiatic Society October, 1903 p. 773. Khuda Bukhsh,
_Islamic Civilisation_ p. 147 and the authorities therein cited.