388 The Chevalier Griperc’s Account of the great Historical Work 
which he returned to Cairo, where he became kddhi-al-kodhd, or supreme 
judge, and died in the year 1406, at the advanced age of seventy-four. Be- 
sides his great historical work, of which I propose to offer a short analysis 
in this paper, he had achieved several other performances in natural history, 
politics, jurisprudence, and the science of languages; but they are now 
either lost, or but very little known. His principal and most remarkable 
work is the ‘‘ History of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Berbers.” The Arabic 
title of this work is: grey aptly ml y Coll oli go nBl y “aceall lye y pall obs 
ez and translated into English, signifies ‘‘ A Book containing instructive 
Examples, and a Collection of the subject and the predicate respecting the 
History of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Berbers, as well as of other con- 
temporary Nations.” The whole composition is commonly called Térikh 
Ibn Khaldin, or ‘‘ The Annals of Inn Kuarptn.” 
The first oriental scholar of Europe, my respected friend the Baron Srt- 
vesTRE De Sacy, has given in Vol. xx1. of La Biographie Universelle, 
ancienne et moderne, a very complete and eloquent account of the author and 
of his book. He has moreover published and translated into French several 
pages of this work, both in his Chrestomathie Arabe, and in his edition of 
A’apuxatir’s Description of Egypt. Those pages are taken from the first 
part of the work, which the author himself entitles : é > ed pe uct 8 dodie, 
that is to say, ‘‘ Prolegomena respecting the excellence of the science of His- 
tory;” which first part is often considered as a separate work, independent 
of the two other parts of the great history; the former of which compre- 
hends the history of the Arabs and other nations, from the beginning of the 
world to the eighth century of the Hegira; the latter, the history of the 
author’s own nation, the Berbers or Amazirgs, and of other indigenous 
nations of northern Africa, also an account of the various tribes, and of the 
dynasties who have succeeded each other in this remarkable part of the 
globe. 
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Notwithstanding [py Ku axpbtn hasnot altogether renounced the prejudices 
of his religious tenets, he has done so in a much greater degree than any other 
Arabian historiographer. He is, at least, in no way tainted, either with the 
predilection of his brethren in religion, for all that is Arabian, or with their 
blind zeal, for the superiority of their nation above every other. Far from 
judging of the Arabs with partiality, he often rather errs on the opposite 
side. His principal object, it would appear, has been to write the history 
