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NOTE TO GENEALOGICAL TREES i, 2, 3

To illustrate Part II, Chapter i, three genealogical trees are given^. They

also serve to some extent to illustrate Part IV. The first shews the Kahtanite

tribes, the second the Isma'ilitic tribes (and their connection with the descendants of Kahtan), and the third the 'Abbasid and Omayyad families and that of the Prophet.

The following points require to be noted with regard to these trees

:

1. They are (with the exception of the inset to Tree i) entirely com-

piled from Wiistenfeld's Register zu den genealogischen Tabellen.... Other

authorities of course give many of the details differently.

2. Tree i is compiled from Tables I-XXIII in Wiistenfeld. Trees

2 and 3 are compiled from Tables A-Z in Wiistenfeld. (Throughout Wiistenfeld's work figures refer to Kahtanite tribes and

letters to Isma'ilitic tribes.)

3. I have altered Wiistenfeld's German orthography to that used throughout this book.

4. A vast number of names given by Wiistenfeld, which are either

quite unimportant in themselves or which are irrelevant to my subject, have been omitted. My object has been to provide reasonably compact

skeleton trees for ready reference, as Wiistenfeld's work, though frequently quoted in this book, is not easily accessible.

At the same time many apparently unimportant names are inserted

(still on Wiistenfeld's authority) since they bear suggestive resemblances

to proper names found among the Arab tribes of the Sudan—whether

there is actually any connection or not.

5. The dates given are generally only approximate and, unless the contrary is stated, refer to the year in which the man named was born. These dates (excepting the later historical ones) are adopted from Caussin de Perceval's Essai sur Vhistoire des Arabes..., Vol. I.

6. The names of the eponymous ancestors of the most famous tribes

are shewn in capitals. Names of tribes are shewn in italics.

^ See end of Part, after p. 190.