Notes to the Introduction

1 No Library of Congress authority was found for this name or for the title of the work.

2 Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī. Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded. Library of Arabic Literature. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2016.

3 Dār al-Kutub, Adab Taymūr 876.

4 I am indebted to Noah Gardiner for his assessment of the codex, based on a digital copy.

5 The crossed-out line reads ما اسمُ شي يعرف بالرفع وبالنصْبِ وان كان متقَنًا بِالبنَاء‎.