[16] Chief of Religious Matters.
[17] A heretical group explained in the thirty-sixth chapter of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[18] For documented explanation, see the 27th chapter of Endless Bliss I.
[19] Al-a’lâm bi kawati’ al-Islâm, p. 137, with references to Ibn as-Subkî and other scholars. This book of Ibn Hajar’s was printed on the page margins of Zawâjr, another book written by him. It is in Arabic and available in Istanbul.
[20] Al-jânib al-gharbî, Râshid Effendi section, Suleymâniyye Library, Istanbul.
[21] Mukhtasaru tadhkirat al-Qurtubî, p. 96.
[22] Tuhfat an-muzzâr, p. 9. The author of this history work, Ibn Battûta, dictated it to his secretary, Ibn Jazî. It has been translated into various languages. The second translation into Turkish by Muhammad Sherîf Beg was printed in Istanbul in 1335 A.H. (1917). The above-quoted passage is also quoted in Yûsuf an-Nabhânî’s Jawâhir al-bihâr in the entry “ ’Abd al-Ghanî an-Nabulusî”.
[23] This passage is translated from Ibn Hajar al-Makkî’s Jawhar al-munzam. It is also quoted in Shawâhid al-haqq.
[24] For detailed information about that person, see the books Confessions of a British Spy, and Advice for the Muslim, available from Hakîkat Kitâbevi.
[25] These two books exist in the Suleymâniyye Library, in the “Beshir Aga” section with call number 142.
[26] Muhammad ibn ’Abd al-Wahhâb, Kashf ash-shubuhât, also translated into Turkish.
[27] An unbeliever who claimed to be a prophet. He was killed by Wahshî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’.
[28] This hadîth is reported by at-Tirmidhî, an-Nasâ’î, al-Baihakî, at-Tabarânî and al-Bukhârî in his History.
[29] The forgoing ten paragraphs were paraphrased from the seventh volume of Jevdet Pasha’s History
[30] Second part of this book is reproduced by Hakîkat Kitâbevi, Fâtih, Istanbul, Turkey, 1395 (1975).