[Footnote 14: Algazali.--_He was an Eminent Philosopher, Born at Thus a Famous City of_ Chorafan, _in the Year of the_ Hegira 450, _of Christ_ 1058. _He died in the Year of the_ Hegira 505, _of Christ_ 1111-2. Dr. Pocock's Elenchus Scriptor.] [Footnote 15: Heresy.--_In Arabick the Word_ Kafara, _signifies_ to be an Infidel, _but they use it commonly as we do the word_ Heresy, viz. _when a Person holds any thing erroneous in Fundamentals, tho' Orthodox in other points_.] [Footnote 16: The Doctrine of the _Suphians_--_The_ Suphians _are an Enthusiastick Sect amongst the Mahometans, something like_ Quietists _and_ Quakers; _these set up a stricter sort of Discipline, and pretended to great abstinence and Contempt of the World, and also to a greater Familiarity and stricter Union with God than other Sects; they used a great many strange and extravagant actions and utter Blasphemous Expressions_. Al Hosain Al Hallagi _was eminent amongst them about the Year of the_ Hegira 300. _'Twas he that wrote in one of his Epistles_, Blessed is he that possesses the shining light, _&c. and pretended that God dwelt in him. The Learned among the_ Arabians _are not agreed, about the derivation of the Word,_ Sufi, Suphian. _It seems not to be known among them till about the_ 200 _Year of the_ Hegira. _The most probable Interpretation of it is from the Arabick word_ Suph, _which signifies_ Wool, _because those that followed this Sect refused to wear Silk, and Cloathed themselves only with_ Wool. Dr. Pocock _and_ Golius _follow this Interpretation; tho' the latter in his Lexicon seems to doubt whether it is deriv'd from the [Greek: sophos] or from the Arabick_ Suph. _The Sultan of Persia is often call'd the_ Sophy, _because_ Ismael _the first Sultan of that Family now in_ Persia _who began to Reign in the 605 Year of the_ Hegira, _that is of our Lord the_ 1554/5 _was of this Sect._ viz, Sufi, a Suphian.] [Footnote 17: _The word which I have here rendred_ Starlight, _is_ Zohal _in Arabick which signifies_ Saturn. _'Tis a common way with the Arabian Authors, when they intend to shew a vast disproportion between things, to compare the greater to the_ Sun _and the lesser to_ Saturn. _The meaning of this Distich, is that there is as much difference between what a Man knows by hearsay, or what notions he imbibes in his Education, and what he knows when he comes to examin things to the bottom, and know them experimentally, as there is between Twilight and Noonday_.] * * * * * THE HISTORY OF _HAI EBN YOKDHAN_.