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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank in particular: my old friend Dr Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shamāḥī of Ṣanʿāʾ, for helping me tease out some of the knottier problems of the text; Ianthe Maclagan and Tim Morris, for their wonderful hospitality in Oxford and Andalusia; Professor Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, for restoring some especially tricky arabicized Chinese terms to their original forms; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, for supplying with remarkable speed a superb digital copy of the only known manuscript; and Philip Kennedy, Chip Rossetti, and Gemma Juan-Simó for their unceasing encouragement and editorial support from Abu Dhabi and New York. I am also indebted to the late Professor Sauvaget, whose work on the First Book of the Accounts was truly a labor of love, for a number of suggested readings and interpretations.