Note 161 — Terminal Essay.

This origin had been advocated a decade of years before by Shaykh Ahmad al-Shirawání; Editor of the Calc. text (1814–18): his Persian preface opines that the author was an Arabic-speaking Syrian who designedly wrote in a modern and conversational style, none of the purest withal, in order to instruct non-Arabists. Here we find the genus “Professor” pure and simple.