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Art. I.—On “The Most Comely Names,” 
i.e. The Laudatory Epithets, or The Titles of Praise, bestowed on God in the Qur'ān or by Muslim Writers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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All students of the facts and doctrines of Islām, that uncompromising and purely monotheistic faith promulgated by Muhammad to the pagan Arabians, his kinsmen or countrymen, as also to the Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians who dwelt in and about Madīna, or the three Arabias, thirteen hundred years ago, will have met with some mention of what European writers generally know as “The ninety-nine names of God,” but which are denominated in chap. vii. v. 179, as also in chap. xx. v. 7, of the Qur'ān itself, “The Most Comely Names,” .
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page 2 note 1 The list has only ninety-nine names or titles when correctly counted.—J. W. R.
page 3 note 1 The correctness of each “name” is attested by the total of the numerical values of its component letters.
page 3 note 2 In a work printed in 1842–7 for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts—viz., the Biographical Dictionary by Al-Nawawï, in p. 28, l. 18, I find it mentioned as follows: 
Some of the Sūfī sect have asserted: “Unto God, may He be glorified and magnified, (belong) a thousand names.” One line further on there occurs: 
But as to the names of God, may He be glorified and magnified, well, this number is insignificant in respect of them. Of course, the Divine Titles are, in reality, co-extensive with language. But it is to be feared that “the ninety-nine names of God” will long remain in the public mind as a relic of past belief.
page 5 note 1 The thirty-three perhaps originated in counting three each on the joints of the ten fingers, and one triplet added, to make sure. The ninety-nine is simply a multiple of this basis.
page 10 note 1 Sale says: “their celebration thereof.”
page 11 note 1 Sale has: “His prayer and His praise.”
page 12 note 1 In this list, the following abbreviations are used. H. for Hottinger; Ht., Herldot; M., Meninski; Q., Qur'ān; Qs., Qāmūs; R., Rabadan; Rs., Rogers; V., Vratislas. An asterisk before a number denotes a title collected by the author from various sources.
page 17 note 1 These four divine titles are sometimes distinguished by the special name 
the mothers of the names, i.e. the fundamental titles.—Technical Terms, p. 90, l. 13.Google Scholar
page 35 note 1 It is as incorrect to write bismillah in one word, as it would be to write chefdœuvre or aidedecamp.
page 50 note 1 Sale has: “who executeth righteousness.”