and the book Jawamiʿ al-sira, which al-Dhahabi refers to as al-Sira al-nabawiyya, has likewise been printed by Dar al-Maʿarif, edited by Drs. Ihsan ʿAbbas and Nasir al-Din al-Asad and revised by the scholar Ahmad Muhammad Shakir. Five short treatises by Ibn Hazm are appended to this edition: 1. A treatise on the canonical Qurʾan readings (qiraʾat) currently accepted in the various Muslim lands and established by tawatur. 2. A treatise listing the names of the Companion transmitters of hadith and the number of reports related by each of them. 3. A treatise naming those from whom legal opinions (fatwa) have been transmitted among the Companions and later scholars, arranged according to the extent of their juridical activity. 4. Jumal futuh al-Islam (A Summary of the Islamic Conquests). 5. The Names of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and of the imams who bore the title Amir al-Muʾminin. Dr Ihsan ʿAbbas has also published three volumes of Rasaʾil Ibn Hazm, which include: Tawq al-hamama fi al-ulfa wa-l-ulaf, Risala fi mudawat al-nufus, Risala fi al-ghina al-mulhi, Fasl fi maʿrifat al-nafs bi-ghayriha, and other items. In 1957 al-Qudsi issued Maratib al-ijmaʿ fi al-ʿibadat wa-l-muʿamalat wa-l-iʿtiqadat together with Naqd Maratib al-ijmaʿ by Ibn Taymiyya. See the introduction to the first volume of Rasaʾil Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi by Dr Ihsan ʿAbbas, the introduction to Jumhurat Ansab al-Arab by Ustadh ʿAbd al-Salam Harun, and Sarkis, Muʿjam al-matbuʿat, pp. 85-86. (1) Pronounced with two vocalised lams separated by a quiescent unpointed baʾ: a major town (qasaba) in al-Andalus whose district adjoins that of Akshuniya on the east and that of Qurtuba on the west; see Muʿjam al-buldan, 5/10. (2) The Academy edition reads: “in his village.” (3) Luban: an incense-family plant that exudes a resinous gum, also called kundur; for its medicinal uses see al-Muʿtamid fi al-adwiya al-mufrada, pp. 434-435. (4) See Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 3/1150.