Note 37 — CHAP. IV.
Reading edition
For this statement there may be, indeed, some historical foundation. We know that, from the year of the hejra 724 (1323 A.D.) till the year 802 (1399), there reigned in Tripoli a dynasty of the Beni ʿAámer (Haji Khalfa’s Chronological Tables, p. 167.), who most probably were related to the dynasty of the same name which for a long time maintained its dominion over Tripolis in Syria.