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4 Stories about Manka are told by Ibn ‘Alī Uṣaybi‘a in his ‘Uyūn al-anbā’ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’ (*vol. II, 33, according to M.Z. Siddīqī, 1959: 36) and by al-Ṭabarī in his Ta’rīkh (*vol. III, 747–748, according to M.Z. Siddīqī, 1959: 36). See on Uṣaybi‘a’s text and its annotated German translation). See A. Müller’s critical notes (1880: 496–497) on the trustworthiness of the stories about Manka; Uṣaybi‘a borrowed them from a book called Kitāb akhbār al-khulafā’ wa’l-barāmika (Book of the history of the caliphs and Barmakids). The stories are repeated in many books and articles; see, e.g., W. Cureton (1841): 110–111; G. Flügel (1857): 150; M.S. Khan (1979): 2–3 and 9, (1981): 48; M.Z. Siddīqī (1959): 36; R.L. Verma (1992): 468–469. Manka’s conversion to Islam is recorded in the Kitāb al-ḥayawān of al-Jāḥiẓ (M.S. Khan, 1981: 52). See on al-Jāḥiẓ, who lived in the ninth century: R.A. Nicholson (1962): 346–347; S.H. Nasr (1976): 62. See also on Manka: S.Q. Fatimi (1981): 94–96; A. Weber (1857): 114–116.