Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, , at sacred-texts.com THE
GENEALOGY OF THE SEVEN ARABIAN POETS. THIS Table is reprinted
from the Genealogy prefixed to Sir W. Jones’ translation of the
Mu‘allaqāt, as given in the tenth volume of the octavo edition
of his works. The mode of transliterating Arabic proper names
adopted by Sir W. Jones is different from most of the systems in
use among modern English Arabists: the letter Qāf he represents
by K, and Kāf by C; ‘Ayn, for which there is no corresponding
letter in our alphabet, and which is now generally represented
by [‘] or, when Hamza is not represented, by [’], he seems often
to transliterate by aa, or ā; and the strongly aspirated Hā, by
hh. It has been remarked, in the first section of the
Introduction, that those Arabs who claim to be descended from
Ishmael usually trace their genealogies no higher than ‘Adnān,
because of the uncertainty of the descents between ‘Adnān and
Ishmael. According to Sale, "the most approved series enumerates
eight generations betwe