Transcriber's Notes
Project Gutenberg EPUB edition
Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne
The following changes have been made to the text as printed:
1. Footnotes have been placed immediately below the paragraph within which they occur, and marked numerically.
2. A period has been removed following the subheading Gnosticism (Page 14), for consistency with other subheadings.
3. strenously (Page 51) has been corrected to strenuously.
4. The missing word I has been inserted in the passage the next world belongs to him towards whom I have brought it (Page 78).
5. The name printed as Fitz Gerald (Page 97) has been rendered as FitzGerald (the usual form for this writer).
6. A single close-quote mark has been inserted after vouchsafed to him (Page 127).
7. karāmat (Page 129) has been changed to karāmāt.
8. The line beginning Then he quotes (Page 160) has had its indentation reduced, as it is part of the main text and not (as printed) part of the preceding quotation.
9. Index: The character ʿ has been added in the words Abu ’l-Khayr al-Aqtaʿ, ʿAlāʾuddīn, muʿjizat, Muʿtazilites, and Rābiʿa.
10. Apparent inconsistencies in whether hyphens occur in the word pairs well known, passed away, and above mentioned are judged to be due to differences in sense, and no amendments have been made.