Price, vol.i.p.

268, 272--M.] [Footnote 1742: His son Hassan was recognized as caliph in Arabia and Irak; but voluntarily abdicated the throne, after six or seven months, in favor of Moawiyah St.Martin, vol.xi.p 375 .-- M.] [Footnote 175: Abulfeda, a moderate Sonnite, relates the different opinions concerning the burial of Ali, but adopts the sepulchre of Cufa, hodie fama numeroque religiose frequentantium celebratum.

This number is reckoned by Niebuhr to amount annually to 2000 of the dead, and 5000 of the living, (tom.ii.p.208, 209.)] [Footnote 176: All the tyrants of Persia, from Adhad el Dowlat (A.D.
977, D'Herbelot, p.

58, 59, 95) to Nadir Shah, (A.D.1743, Hist.

de Nadir Shah, tom.ii.p.