47/48 1103--1152,) and was a munificent patron of Persian poetry.] [Footnote 38: See the Chronology of the Atabeks of Irak and Syria, in De Guignes, tom.i.p. 254; and the reigns of Zenghi and Noureddin in the same writer, (tom.ii.p.ii.p. 147--221,) who uses the Arabic text of Benelathir, Ben Schouna and Abulfeda; the Bibliotheque Orientale, under the articles _Atabeks_ and _Noureddin_, and the Dynasties of Abulpharagius, p. Pocock.] [Footnote 39: William of Tyre (l.xvi.c.4, 5, 7) describes the loss of Edessa, and the death of Zenghi. |