1. Author of Dār al-ṭirāz, the most important medieval treatise on the muwashshaḥ poetry of Islamic Spain.

2. Ibn Abī ‘Uṣaybi‘a's work has been edited numerous times. The most recent complete edition is ‘Uyūn al-anbā’ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’, ed. Muḥammad Bāsil ‘Uyūn al-Sūd (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyya, 1998). ‘Abd al-Laṭīf's autobiography is found at pp. 634–48. Another version of the autobiography is currently being edited and translated by Dimitri Gutas and corresponds in part to the entry on ‘Abd al-Laṭīf in ‘Uyūn al-anbā’. Pers. comm. April 5, 1998, and February 13, 2000.

3. Ra’īs al-ru’asā’; on the nuances of the term, see Roy Mottahedeh, Loyaltyand Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 130–35; and Makdisi, The Rise of Colleges, 130–31.

4. Maimonides, A Guide for the Perplexed, trans. E. F. Schumacher (New York: Harper and Row, 1977).