Note 51 — Chapter IV · GENESIS OF THE EARLY MOHAMMADAN PALACE
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Lammens, op. cit., p. 106. Sir Charles Lyall me the following note: ‘I feel considerable doubt as to Lammens’s theory that the word ‘ḥîrah’ was used in the time of the Umayyads. The word is Syriac, not Arabic. See Nöldeke, Sassaniden, p. 25, note 1.’