Note 291 — Chapter IX · CHRISTENDOM IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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The story is recorded to have been current among the Motecallemîn—a party kindred to the Motazilites—in Bagdad. Renan, Averroès, p. 293, citing Dozy. Renan thinks it may have been of Jewish origin. Id. p. 294, note. ↑