Abulpharagius assigns the 7th Dynasty to the Franks or Romans, the 8th to the Greeks, the 9th to the Arabs.
A tempore Augusti Caesaris donec imperaret Tiberius Caesar spatio circiter annorum 600 fuerunt Imperatores C. P. Patricii, et praecipua pars exercitus Romani: extra quod, conciliarii, scribae et populus, omnes Graeci fuerunt: deinde regnum etiam Graecanicum factum est (p. 96, vers. Pocock).
The Christian and ecclesiastical studies of Abulpharagius gave him some advantage over the more ignorant Moslems.