IV. D 3. OF THE SUDAN
affected by the religious orders see Hughes, p. 119 (sub "Faqir") and pp. 92 et seq. (sub "Dress").
"Cotton shirts" {"gibba"). An allusion to the patched shirt of the fakir that became so familiar at a later date, in the Mahdia.
"The kings of Ga'al," i.e. the Meks of the Ga'alii'n. See note to No. 27.
Khogali's rising to greet the successor of Sheikh Idris Arbab would be in compliment to Sheikh Idri's as having been the representative of the Kadiria order (see No. 141), and (incidentally perhaps) as being of the same tribe (Mahass) as Khogah. Sughayerun (q.v. No. 241) was the ''lover" in the Sufi sense of Sheikh Idris and the successor of the Awlad Gabir, whose disciple and follower Khogali's grandfather Ibrahim had been: his successor was Sheikh el Zayn (Xo. 258).
The text later mentions in the following terms
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that Khogali paid considerable respect to the Rik.4bia and Mash.^i'kha "nobility" and others. The whole of this passage describing the attitude of superiority assumed by Khogali suggests a suspicion that interested parties may have obtained the insertion of these qualifying exceptions in the interests of their own prestige, or that a later copyist did not wish to
give offence; otherwise "el Sha'arawi's" remarks are somewhat inapposite.
"Sheikh 'Abd el Kddir" is of course "el Gilani." "Ahmad el Xdsiri" is later on called "Muhammad el Xasir" (but see note to para, vii, supra). This stor\- of the sandbank gives us the only intimation in so many words of the date of the composition of the Taba- kdt.
" When the Sultan Bukr . . .": for the Arabic see Appendix 34. Bukr reigned in Darfur from 1682 to 1722 (see Schurtz, p. 545). The ston.- ends abruptly as in the translation.
"As regards his original faith . . . ": for the Arabic see Appendix 35. The " awrdd" {sing, "zcird") are portions of the Kuran set aside for daily reading.
"He died. . .": for the Arabic see AppendLx 36. Where the date is in the twelfth centun.- the author as a rule omits the
first two figures: if the eleventh or thirteenth centun.- is intended he ahvays inserts them.
155. "Abu Sabib" is here written >^..>.>...^.t I ("Absabib"). 156. " The 40 disciples": sc. of Ibrahim el Bulad (cp. Nos. 23 and 254). The holv-men whose names begin with M are divided into two groups by the author, the northern and the southern : the follo^nng are the southern group: Xos. 157, 159, 166, 168, 169, 174, 177, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185,
186, 188, 190, 192, 193, 198, 200, 201, 205, 209, 210. The last two of these
to be treated of by the author are Xos. 157 and 192 (Mahmud el 'Araki and his son Muhammad), and at the close of the latter's biography, and before commencing the northern group, the author says:
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