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STRiJT.
PREFACE.
clothed in
to
European
dress,
and
offered
mittee,
the
Oriental
all
Translation
Com-
which has on
occasions evinced
am
To him
obligations
municated to
lation
me some
passages of a transto
make
IV
111EF^\CE.
These passages
porated with
my own
notes,
added
to
his
communication
and
I shall
my
Sir
"
Of the two
is
and
distinct composition.
See the
" Catalogue
of several
hundred
Manuscript
Works
in various Oriental
In
1831,
and
intended
11)
under the
in quarto,
titles
of "
Tahkik
al
No. 380,
Buld^n,"
in folio,)
and
'*
Takwim
al
No. 383,
MS.
PREFACE.
although, as both treat on the same subject,
The
first
work, entitled
gives, in
'J
ahkik
al Irab,'
{^\jcf\ j>:iJ)
names of
and other
entitled
like-
'J'he
second MS.
(^l^JJi
is
Takwim
al
Buldan,'
in
^^) and
order,
wise
exhibits,
alphabetical
places,
the
names of various
(shorter
with descriptions,
in
than those
given
the former
degrees
of longitude and
From what
but
it
is
ad\liii Tiisi,
Ham-
Kazvini,
(iyL.1
kr-jl)
(as
our
in-
genious author
commonly
the
'
styled) I
have
little
information.
Sadik,'
His
(jjLo
principal
work,
Subhh
g^
VI
PRKFACE.
:
in
my
Collection.
subjects,
He composed
chiefly historical,
I
also
on
different
many
tracts,
(some of which
possess,) constituting a
'
Miscellany deno-
minated
Shahid Sadik'
(jl>Lo
^It)
to this
and
"
is
I believe that
it
Mirzd Muhammed
Sdleh Zobeiri
Muhammed
Azaddni,^
note
made above
friend,
by an accomplished
who brought
sited
many
parts of India,
fifty
where he died
years before t
;
^'^1 ^^j ^U
We
may
Js,=r*
Ij^^ ^J
jJLo .V^
\jy^
Sdleh
J)t)^1
Muhammed
to
Isfahan.
(See the
" Tahkik
al
Irab," p. 2.)
employed on
his
work, the
*'
Subhh
PREFACE.
Vll
much
"
He
'
Takwim
al
Buldan
; '
admirable
Kazvini,
will
Nuzahat
al
Kulub of Hamdallah
it
we can
differs
sometimes both.
He
has sup-
plied a multiplicity of
names omitted by
give he has
them, and to
me
Sadik
"
above mentioned,
in
Muhamaccount
medan
in his
of Noah's Deluge.
Vlll
PREFACE.
name
it
belongs.
The Tables
Collection of
Minor Geographers.'
useful
As
this valuable
and
of
latterly
become exlist
your books,
may form
a just
merits
cessors.
"
In
'
my
translation from
al Irab'
some
articles of
the
Tahkik
you
W,
a minute,
and pro-
enumeration of
all
*'
acceetc.
1722,
PREFACE.
IX
How-
omitted,
of a place
Arabic or
Persian
characters, but at
the
same time
which
can express
rable precision.
The
/'
learned Greaves,
'
who
translated
Abu'
Fedd's
Chorasmia,' was
his Preface, to
which
*
bicis
*
**
me
in Tabulis, tarn
Araiav^aJJ
quam
columnam
dk^\^i\dii
',
Nominum JixionV
qua? formationi
verbis enumerat.
vocum
Quam
!
ingratum,
si
Lectori indicassem
bibus,
At quod
Ara-
eadem
cum
locant,
Inde
X
" It
PREFACE.
would be
difficult to ascertain
how, in
a work
alone,
professedly
treating of
Geography
some
articles totally
first
unconnected with
that subject
arrangement of local descriptions, confounding persons and places in the series of names.
tribe entitled
;
Ak
Kiiin-
jl),
or Bdiandur (^Abb)
called
of the Sel-
jiikian
prince
fireworshipper
Mazhdak
who founded
suspect were,
we may
some
historical
work lying
maxima
in legendis
eorum
libris
difficultas,
major
in
intelli-
Columnam
removimus
quam,
quibus
in
in
et
Arabica," &c.
Chorasmice
Oxum)
16.
p.
Mawaralnahrce (hoc
est
re-
gionum extra
fedcB,
Sfc.
fliivium
Description ex
in
Tabulis
Abul-
Praef.
*'
Printed
the
Third
Volume
of Hudson's
1712. oct.
PREFACE.
before him.
pencil
;
XI
and
Geothey
Tahkik
al Irab
:
')
of each,
person from
received
its
whom any
denomination
legiti-
Khazar, &c.
"I beg
press
leave to repeat
my
offer of assist-
rendered
me familiar
would prove
am, dear
Sir,
yours, &c.
"William Ouseley."
Offering this extract as a Preface to the
the
contents
of
XJtl
PREFACE.
2,
IS,
16, 23,
that,
according to
accent above)
is
call,
and
as
Amid,
The
and
letter
i,
above mentioned:
and
ti,
of our 00 in
moon, &c.
thus in Kufah.
i,
letters (a,
a,
and
u,)
;
as in
man,
:
battle
in imp,
u,
mutter, &c.
as Sir
William
Jones remarks
in
his
may
"
express the
vocal sound;
and
in
the
his
PREFACE.
Xlll
remark)
we
and
(l::^;),
ber
(y),
perveresh
(,^;^;^.)>
&c.
seems unnecessary to
add, that in the
Irab," all the
least
first
work, the
"
Tahkik
al
(at
where they
Persian characters
and of the
is
Takwim
as,
al
printed,
in fact,
little
besides
Of these,
a few have
been
and
two
or three places,
some words,
or letters, have
injury,
been
partly
effaced
by accidental
but not so
much as
any
material degree.
J. C.
THE
CxEOGRAPHICAL WORKS
or
SADIK ISFAHANI.
N".
I.
An
Essay entitled
TAHKIK AL IRAB,
names of
;
ascertaining the
and mountains
THE
GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS
OF
SADIK ISFAHANI.
N.
I.
An
Essay
entitled
TAHKIK AL IRAB,
names of
;
ascertaining the
and mountains
vt^ith
short descriptions,
THE
LETTER
I.
f*
it
rises
among
JiT
the river
US' ^v?
'^
Wolga.
^^ c:^ ^^Ub
"
^Jii^
^^
Caspian.
An
and inhabited by a
KMn,
in
on the
fol-
lowing occasion
woman
far
advanced
pregnancy, to
Achin/
to
'*
(a
name
is
equivalent in
rhyme
or metre
Mdchin/)
^j]t)):T
^^jl^i
^*
I.
This name in
whom
Oghiiz
signifies in the
This
prince,
and
of time his
(See the
**
Bibliotheque Orientale" in
Cabgiak.)
*
Mr. Hamilton,
in his
Acheen as a petty
From
Sir
Wm.
Ouseley's
letter,
quoted
in the
Preface,
it
Muhammed
is
Here
inserted
the
original
manuscript), between
**Aksu" and
(^db
J>
;l )
name
''Ak
Kuinlah
"
is
Turkoman
tribe,
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
Abkhaz/ a
5and the
city
whole
territory
called
by the name of
*
Abkhdz.
Abardah,^ a
villag^e
The Shaikh Behd acldin Omar^ derives name of Abardahi from this place.
the sur-
Addakan/
Najem
acCdin
Mu-
hammed Addakdni.^
Arran,^ a tract of country situated between
the provinces of Azerbaijan/^ Shirvan/^ and
niah/^
Arme-
To Arran belong
jlsr?'
^jl!w=-^ or Georgia.
^^<^j^J
them
his white
Kara Kuinlah
j), for in
the
Turki
Jk
])
signifies
The
tribe of
Jk Kuinlah
Bdiandur
Sir
jJub).
This
is
Wm.
Ouseley, in the
4
Berdc\,
'
Kardbagh,
'
Maughdn,
and
others.
Artuk/
kand
:
it
called
by the Moghuls
of the
*'
Katligh
Ballgh
"
name
^
same
signification as
Shahr muharek
Kibchak.
Arkhang,^^ a region
gal
:
situated eastward of
Ben-
this
^^
province
is
likewise denominated
Rak^*
;
hang.
name
Arden
is
Tabriah/''
Jy^l
^^lyl
''
^j^
JAJU
''^^J^
^
or
Arracan,
Hekh AING,
as
we
is
learn
ton, in his
a maritime province of
man
empire.
'
OF SADIK ISIAHANI.
Urdubad/
jan.
it
rises in the
of the animals
that happen to
into
it,
* Sir
his passage
across this
allusions to
many classical
The words
lib.
viii.
of Virgil,
*'
V.
this river,
(a
di-
site
*
which
indignant Araxes
was
compelled
'
to bear,
tus."
And he illustrates this passage by the following note " Quem pontibus nixus est Xerxes conscendere vel cui Alex;
ander
runt
;
Magnus pontem
fecit
quem
quem
Seethe
;
Commentary
to
which Statins
Latii
79.)
**
Patiens
jam
pontis
(lib. i.)
" Pon-
temque
Vol.
iii.
pati cogitur
p. 432.
W.
Ouseley's Travels,
it is
generally
same country
as Rus.^
Arghandab,'
Irak
All
^
and Azerbaijan
from
this river
Khwajeh
derives the
surname of Arghenddbi.
cele-
divided
two portions
Lesser.
considered as
in length
belonging to Inin
tends
or Persia,
^^
and
ex-
from Arzenar'rum
to
breadth from
this
Van
of
^^
to the borders of
Akhlat
in
division
Armenia are
situated Akhlat,^*
and other
places.
lies
west the
and
in this division is
i-Kubrus.'^
^^^j or Russia.
^j\
^-jjjjii:.'
16
17
18
\
>..
19
J^ S jria.
"
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
Asta/
dar.^
Rustem-
IsTAj/ a town or
city
of
Adimdk * Kizlbdsh
Istdjlu,^
Istanbul/ the
city of Kostantlniah.^
The word
'^bJ/
<uA]aiia/jJ>
'^0..]
or Constantinople.
'J^l ^b ^^^
^j!^
" Red
Cap,") the
by which
were distinguished.
t
is
more
Wm.
Ouse-
p. 573.)
**
Isnicmid
is
formed of the
:
Greek name
from
Nt<co/zeS<a,
eis
thus Sarene
40.)
Morea,
p.
We
Nticaiav)
morphosed
Many
;
other
names formed
now
generally called
it still
retains
most of
Greek denomination,
in
the
word
Kostantiniah
tainty (for
(joudaJdawJ).
We may
Aghmat/
Maghreb/ on
the
borders
of Manikesh.'
Ulughh Tak/
Alenjek/
baijan.*
Alehtak/
Miafarekin.
first
climate situated
mines of eme-
CLjL^l
^
\J^^X^ ^^ Marocco.
Jj^*^
J'il?
j^
tion
eis ten
polin
signifying
**
to
the city
" an answer
commonly given to
"the town,"
or
"the
city,"
/car'
e^oxv^.
Muhammedans
We
Ahmed
*
III. (A.
H.
Nakhchuvan
in
Armenia.
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
Andamankuh/
Herat
:
it is
Andakhud,
ghan/
territory
in
the
*
province of
and Shubur-
in the
west,
Ham,
the son of
Noah,
Japhet,
or, as
some
relate, after
a city in the
province of Azerbaijan.*
'
^/ J^s^
^^
^1
j.^^jJl
^
'
^i>
^Lc^
*
fifty
^'jJl
^U^jl
Jji'^
hundred and
Ujan was
it
It
rable city
near to
saw some
circles of stones,
giants,
iii.
p. 13.
Rouen, 1723
et
les
Grece," Supplem.)
But
Sir
inclosnres,
(now
Jangu,
the
**
con(See
as
cemeteries.
Sir
W.
p. 397.)
10
Uzkand/
Uman/^ a
a city of Turkistan.*^
village of
Hamadan.*
Ah 11/
Shahr,^)
word
the
name
of a river in Azerbaijan.
Irvan/ a
fortress in
Armenia.
whom
fifth
and sixth
cli-
M-dligW Bish
^ yt)]
**
j^
^jW
generally pronounced
Iravdn."
j^}
^jy^)
^'^
'
or Cairo.
OF SADIK- ISFAHAN!.
11
Bab al abuab/ a
van, founded
Dasht-i-Kibchak
**
it
is
called
by the Moghuls
**
Demur
mansion or
first
residence
con-
Bakharz/
ders of Khwaf.^
a country of
number
but this
are Christians.
Baligh
so the
Turks
call
**
a city
"
;
name
is
composed of
Bai,^ signifying a
wealthy
12
Bandhu/
territory
of Hindustan,^ on the
south of Alehiibad.^ *
BuHMiD,*! a
Berut.^
city of
Sham
Beravishtan,^ a village of
place
Kum
"^
from this
Majd al Mulk
rdvlshtdni Kumi.^
BardsiRj^^ a city
is
in the
province of Kirman
^^
:
it
Bursa/^ a celebrated
city
in the province
of
Rum.
S^.
,
.
("...
..
^^j;^
C^'-^jy
cj^]
s^
'
jo^^iy
^v^y
in his
Under the
article
**East
the province
find
the
word
**
BandBaiandur "
**
same
signification as
tribe
Jk Kuinlah
(before noticed
The
^U-
J^Jub
^L>-:^T
fj[s>~
-.S)'
;
But
this article
geographical information
and the
tribes of
Turkomans wander
OF SADIK ISFAHAXI.
BiRKAH Ghurian/
.
a place in Moghulistan.
Khazar.^
tasi.
From
this
name
the derivative
is
Bur-
BuRxiu/ an
Baglanah/
Dek-
Balasaghun,^ a considerable
called
city ofTurkistan;
signi-
fying
Balashabad," a
Bulutiah/^ a
Suwad
of Irak.^^
city of Andulus.
Baliankuh/*
a place in Irak.
Bam/^
castle
:
Bundukiah/'^ a considerable
climate in Europe
:
it is
u^.jf^ ^/.
"
^j^'^y
'
jx^ ci^t)
See
the
*
"
^ji (Borneo)
^,-^l>
^il<o
^d
This name
is
sometimes spelt
by Sddik Isfahdni
cl>!^s^
in other parts
of his work.
^ ^^j^sils*-
12
Bihar/
(or
And
^
there
is
in
which
name
of
Bihar
it
at present
TattahJ
The word
given
in
There
is
same name
last
it
was the
capital
of
Bahman
bil.^^
Patani,^^ a sea-port
in'
the east.
Pandwah/^
'
a place in Bengalah,*
e;^j^
(^
%^ %^^
" j^.;
'
^^
"j,
*
*'
^
to
(so
- jto
is
>s,jj.
According
Punduah"
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
15
Pushang/
n
Herat
it is
called after
Talish,^ the
name
Noah
the
(on
whom
from him
name was
was
called Talishistan J
The
Arabs write
this
name
^^ Talish.*
in the territory of
Tabadekan,^ a town
hed Mekudds Tus.^
Mesh-
Tabarek," a
Tabrseran/^ a
castle at
this
Isfahan.
is
The Arabic
manner of writing
name
lLJ^ Tabarek.
district of Shirvan.t
12
u'r^
* Spelt with the letter
]o
instead of ^l?.
(^
sometimes written
;
in
the
Arabic manner
Jts) signifies
is
a battle-axe or hatchet
and the
compound
tabrserdn
16
Takht-i-Halaku/
This denomination
is
in
Bakuieh
to
Bagh-
to the
extreme borders
Rum.
Taft,^ (equivalent in metre to Haft,
'^)
a place
^^
and Ha-
madan
Takkah-ili/^ a mountain
in the
province of
We find
in
many
Here
is in
"Tabrserby
an"
and ''Takht-i-HalIku," an
all the
article distinguished
names of
reference
whatever.
This article
" Tatish
"
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
17
^
the
-
name
of Taklu
has been
given to a Kizilbash
tribe.
district in Gilan.
Machin.
the
name
is
sometimes amplified,
"^
TuRAPUSHT f a place in the province of Fars from which a learned theological writer of the
;
son of Faridun
to
^^
it
Tuz,^^ (equivalent to
tan
^^
from
name
'^-
\^y>'
or Scythia.
'y^'
*^IKJG-
^^l;^-
%y
15
'' i:J3^./
13
14
J^
*
J3J
U^J^
I':
i6
^jy
river ;" that is,
(^^s^)
or
Oxus
we
denominate Transoxiana,
18
Jajrem/ a
bad
^
city of Khurdsan,
between Astera-
and Nishapur.^
in
Jajnagar/
India,
a city of Oudieh^
in
'*
a mountain," given
"^
and
Khurasan
Hamadan, Rai,
and Zinjan.^
Jattah,^ an extensive region of Turan, from
their
name.
This tribe
is
and
Moghulistan.^^
j^J>-[-
"
d\j]JxJ\
.^litjj
Jol=vL=w
'^/,]
9 y:
'J^
10
\
*
'vy
^*^
jl^
11
|..
"cM;
,
^a/*j^
jljlJu.1
or Dictionary
entitled
" Burhan-i-Kat^ " informs us that " Istdrhdd {the first syllable
being accented with Kesr)
is
the
name of a
.b*
city in
Tabristdn,
c:^^^
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
to
iS
and
he found
Samarkand^
to
fight
against
them
in great battles, of
;
lost others
to a
hun-
Jarendab,^ a
district of Tabriz.*
f
after the
named
Emir
Jemmaail,^ a city
in the
name
Khurasan.
'i^^'
'j-tf^
title
'<J^C^
'
<^/ ^^
The
was derived
the strange
to
pean
writers.
His name
Timoor, &c.
He
of the
Muhammedan
from
era, 807.
f The second
that place
MS. copy
is
" and
of
named
Jarenddb.
t_jljJ^
J^^ Ll^^wjjyJu)
(j^ j
20
Bastam^
this
in
Khurasan. The
is
name
Juzfan.^
JuNAH
fortress
Gadh,*
the
D,) a
of Gujerat
:
in India
it
is
also called
**
Karnal
signifies
an
ancient castle."
Chukhur Saad/^
Azerbaijan.
signification as *f in Persian
after
whom
this
called .f
'
^^J^
'
^Ik^
'
eJ^j^
"^^
^^
"
Jesselraere
situated
north latitude."
f Notwithstanding
exists in the Persian
still
word X; and
Turkish dictionaries.
Our
author,
*'
Iravan" as a
castle or fortress;
and
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
21
is
Charkez/
also written
Charkes/
the last
Rum.
Mahmud
;
Chichaktu/ a tract of country in Khurasan, near Maimend ^ it is one of the territories belonging to Balkh.9
'
^\c^>
'
^y^j^
^^^
^ly^
'y%^
Sir
W.
the
**
Chukhur Saad."
rial,
or piece of silver
money which
in the in-
afterwards
scription that
Muhammedan
irre
*'
to
1810
of
Christ).
J\^^]
that in
Sx^
^yk^ c-J^
Chukhur
Travels," Vol.
iii.
p. 442.)
Sir
MS.
Aalum
Arai, seems to
some
it
distinction
he thinks
was a name
originally
and
Chukhur Saad
to the
adjoining territory.
22
Chin/ a
after
named
whom
the
The Moghiils
call
Mahri/
r
Khabur,* a
rising in the
river in
On
Khabur
Khandis/^ a country
in
:
Malwah
^^
and Dekkan
;"
name
signifies
*'
the
Khan's territory
and
it
was
so called after
;
Nasr
Khan
lang,^'^
Fdritki,^^
in
which
^^^
j^^Astll
Jy^
'^
1.
^jY^
iJL^ji
^yl^
(
i)
^^,j^
liUi*
^jjij
or Euphrates.
13
..
).
I.
14
15
..
16
* Candeish, according to
Major Rennell,
is
a small soubah,
or province, adjoining
fine city of p. exxvi.)
Malwa
(*'
Burhanpour.
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
2$
Khaveran/ a
Sarakhs
called
^
district of
:
Khurasan, between
it is
and Abivard
Mahnah.*
a city of
Kharshenah/
Kharrakan,^
Rum.
province of Fars
a territory of Jam.
;
Khurrem/
a place in the
whom
and
this
and
this region
also called
it
and
other towns.*
*
i^jyjj]
3X^
24
Khatta/
Fars,^ near to
Yemameh
Arabs
v^ith t
'
Khita,
(the
spell this
j)
name with
)o
Kluinba-
The
to
tion of
Mawerelnahr
Sakaval
^
Sakaval
markand
order
is
stages
fifteen
;
from
Khoten
thirty-five
and from
its
capital in
was Ahwaz
^*
^^
To
belong
Jondi-
Askermokrem,
Ramhormuz,^^
Arjan,^^
)o^
" ^/^;'-9
j^
^[Ljj^
^jLlJs,^
or Susiana. ^
^
j^^^
y^fc-^j
^\:^}
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
25
province was
and
originally
the
name
of this
Khuazistan/ (the
after
**
letter a
coming
in immediately-
w,)
^
for
in
Deri "
(or the
sig-
nified a
and
in the celeits
name
Dar el Marz,*
Rustemdar,
joining.
Daghistan
;
this
name
signifies
**
Dagh
in the
Turk!
spoken
in Iran or Persia,
'uS^y^
'^;^
^;U
'^;^i
;J
J^T^
ul'^j^
^c;U^.'^
^;^*V^
*
this
According
to the Dictionary
**
Burhan-i-Kata,"
(in i;:1i-)
l)^
}) ^^ rather, as
may be
26
is
of the Ira-
word tak
signifies
" a
t is
mountain
name Daghistan,
changed into
and k
into gh.
is
river, the
source of which
Nisi-
of
ArzenarVum and
^
bin;*
falls
Gulf) near
Abadan
in the Parsi
is
(or
pure Per-
called
Arvend Rud J
it
is
it
jjii"
Jj)/^^
As^ii
Jjys-J
J^.^.
;^^}
C^y^*^
The
sian sovereigns
and
is
called Artaxares
historians.
OF SAPIK ISFAHAN!.
27
Dasht
Kain
:
(or
Desht)/ a
it is
(the white
plain or desert).
Damavand,* a mountain eastward of Rai the original name of this mountain was Dunia avand, ^
:
signifying
is
**
It
mountain
world
on the summit
a level
by
extent
spot.
and
in the
this
It is related that
!)
whom
Demon
Sakhreh.^
several inhabited
places,
what
is
called
Damavand;
Dimeh.''^
among
Rai
these
being
DuRBEST,^ a village
at present called
in the territory of
^
it is
Duresht
and Turesht.^^
Ij^ t>
Duriest, as written, or
ci^nmjJ^^
ti
Durhest, ac-
c^^t>
28
RusTEMDAR,^ a
Ranash/
fiil.
Rus/
Noah, on
the
name
Rus
whom
After Rus,
called.
the country of
been so
This
is
climates,
to the sea of
Rus
it
contains
Masku
but
its
capital
Hashterkhan.^
In
They
..
Astrakhan)
* Rusteradar,
according to Hamdallah
c.
Kazvini,
(in
his
celebrated
MS. Geography,
and
is
xviii.)
hundred
river
villages,
watered by the
Shahrud
( ji. ytli.).
He
considers
it
vince of Mazinderan.
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
29
at
tribes,
and always
war
Rum.
Rishahr/ a
tan.*
Zidend/
a city of Kirman.
places of
to
Sur-
Here our
down Khuzit
much towards
W.
Ouse-
Volume
of his Travels
MS.
;
He
also
but which in
Pars.
To
this
Abu
miles.
30
Sejavend/
Persian
of Ghaznin
^
;
(the Arabic
name Seg^vend,^)
Sakha/
gives a
which
surname
a book entitled
"
''
Zil l^liddul,"
SuNARGANW
this
name
signifies
'*
the village
Soonergong, or
;
Sunnergaum,
is
now dwindled
we
to
village
Major Rennell
p. 57.
in
his
" Memoir of a
it
Map
of Hindoostan,"
He
adds, that
is
for
"
the
golden village,"
his
this
name
in its
immediate vicinity.
The
made by
native artists of
is
now
in
Mr. Baber's
possession.
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
31
Sinjan/ a place
Sahand/
and Maraghah
the circumference of
it is
said to
be twenty-five farsangs.
Saihun/ a
Shahrukhiah.9
river of
'^
Turkestan
it is
^
called also
Ab-i-Khojend,
and Ab-i-Fenaket,
and Ab-i-
in the province of
chief
town
is
Masbendan. ^^
between Anta-
Sis/" a city of
Sham
(or Syria),
kiah
^^
Sailan/^ an island
Indian Ocean.
^'^
:
it is
also called
Sihevat
court
^^
;
signifies the
(or
''
.uTiyi
t"
''
^^Jb
..
''
^K.
(or Ceylon)
19
16
17
18
is
unequivocally placed in
>S^
alphabetical order
among
the
^ yet
town
oif
we
'*
as a
Sh),
32
whom
hddiv
**
and
also call
^
Ma-
'*
estehan "
signifies the
^
Shash,*
(so in
Chach^
is
called Tingit.^
Fars
its
chief city
is
Darabjerd.^
Shebani,^ a
This territory
''
derived
its
name from
shepherd,"
times.*
Shebishter,^^
or,
Shab Bavvan,^^
raz.^^
which
^U>jj
^^
jX^u,\ui
jX^mJ^^-
"
(in
voce) mentions
"a
f^
Tus."
3
(^^
OF SADTK ISFAHAN!.
33
this
'
may
world
(or
Da-
Nahr
*
Nubendjan.^
Shamkur,^ a
gives
name
to the plain
Shush, 9 (equivalent
the Arabs.
in
rhyme
:
to Gush,^) a city
it is
called Sus
^^
by
is
a tribe
whom
the territory of
named.
city of
a place in Chin.^^
.'.
10
{j*'^^
( i^y
11
12
,,
{^y**
Uy**
" Jji
"o^^
"i^A^
'^^
34
U^
Saklab/
whom
named
mates
the
;
After Sakldb
is
cli-
and
air,
(or
Europeans)
The
it is it
The
chief city of
is
Amol
bad,'^
and
it
one
account, Tabristan
same
lan,
signification,
^tsLc
tries.
"
Jft)^^
ty^^
as forming a part.
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
35
ToKHARESTAN,^ * a
Balkh^
to
(or
TuRTus/
near to Masisah.^
^jIawj^Ics^
i^^s^
or river
Oxus.
Or "
cap. 7.)
TOXAPOI,
fxeya
eOvos,
That most
excellent geographer.
that
artes
**
inclined to think
may
have been
its
original seat.
*'It
worthy of
re-
tribes of the
names of Taochari
in
**
Armenia
the
"
name
to the
Araxes; as Xenophon
calls
it
Phasis
" both
See
his
observations on the
Eastern Scythians, or Massagetje, in the " Geography of Herodotus," p. 227. (Quarto Edition.)
But
this
remark, however
(.[s'^
Ptole-
my's Toxapot above mentioned) as the same with Xenophon's Taochi (Tao^ot, Anabas.
lib. iv.).
36
Turtushah/
a city of the
fifth
climate, in
;
Anand
country in-
Taraf,^ a
territory of Bengalah.
Tavalish/ a
Gilan and
habited
territory
:
Mughan
it
by
Omman,
mate
:
(or
Umman,^) a country
of the
first cli-
from
this the
Bahr-i-Omman
(the
its
Sea of
Omman,
ar.^
name
of this country
is
called Sahh-
fifth
climate, in
Rum.
:
of
Sham
(or Syria)
its
Antakiah.
^^
'^^>
^^]>
'
J^
'^^^
^^li^o
*^(k^
^^IL
^U
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
shid,^* in the year 170,
37
and so peopled
this place,
and called
it
Avasim.
from
this
Ahd
in
painting,
derives
the surname
of
Ghijddvdni?
Ghalatifun,^ an ocean
of the north
mat,'^ or
'*
;
in the
extreme borders
are called Zul-
it
Darkness."!
'^}^ ^^)^
cr^:;
c^b J^
KhaUfah
{i^s^^) so distinguished
the
ia
history.
Muhamme-
to
*'
780 of Christ.
our author has already menthe
Turan,"
Zulrnat,
of
hyperborean country of
Cimmerian darkness.
38
Fareh/ a place in the territory of Tiis. Fashan/ (according to the Arabic method
writing
of
Pashan/ ) a
tory of Herat.
(or pro-
Sham (or
(or
Syria),
Demeshk
Egypt), comprising
alMukuddes^ (Jerusalem),
cities
;
from
this province is
^^
Filistin "
(or
''
also
called the
Tiah Beni-Israil."
J
Kavan,^^ a village of Gilan, so written according
to
letter
y^.'^
13
16
xj
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
39
Kahhkar/ a village belonging to Basrah.^ Kurafah/ is a certain place.* Karaman/ a country so called after a man
named Kardmdn :
it
is
Rum
and
it
towns
and from
this
mans
derive the
name
Turkestan
is
situated on the
sum"
mit of a mountain
the original
damsels resided at
accordingly given to
is
name was
is
It
a country
Karakrim.^^
J
10
..
..
11
..
..
In both manuscripts
*^
this article
seems imperfect
they
damma
on
^j^
^^^r^ <'^ i^
name
;
^^)^
t The two
it
MSS.
yet
r^
kirk, signifying
*'
girl or damsel.''
40
Kilmak/ a
country
is
tribe of
Turks
(or Tatars),
whose
KuMALiGH,* a
Belasaghun.*
Turin
it
is
also called
KuMis/ a territory of Khurasan in it are situated Semnan/ Bastam,^ and Faravah.^ KuHisTAN ^ so in the Arabic manner is written
:
the Persian
word Kuhistan/^
signifying generally
a mountainous country. In the Kuhistan of Khurasan are situated Kaln/^ Berjend/^ Desht-i-Biaz/*
Kashghur/^ a
territory of
Aighur
in
Turkestan
and
it
is
the
its
town
is
Bihar or Behar.
:
these
two
Kuch
Behar.^^
^jU/^'
^"
^^U'
^^^^
UU*w.^
lJ^^*'
plain, or desert."
"
'
.Jo!
lxo
''^>A
"-%^^^
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
41
Kebud Jameh/
yknr *
Kach-har/
limits
:
of Iran (or
Karharud,^^ a
memorials of
it is
among
the
Abu
Delef
Ajeli.^^
^^
^^/^j^
VoV
* Jurjan,
\/
">=-^^yl
MS.
Tumans
Mazinderan
but even
in his
Kebud Jameh,
signifies
was
ruined.
'^
The
garments."
42
Kuch/
Gurch/
borders of Shlrviin
its
capital city
is Teflis.^
GiRDKUH,* a
Ajem.
Gulkhendan/
rdn.^
Gan jah/
that province.
The
or
soldiers
and inhabitants of
'
.JjOa"
'
..,!,
JJ;U
'
^
al
Hamdallah Mastowfi,
celebrated geographical
(t-jJiil
work
" Nuzhat
Kulub,"
c:^^ J) quotes a
tetrastich,
of Iran or Persia
{^^), and
(^1^1), Marv
is
T6s
(^u.^).
often subject to
a play
"a
we
"Gan-
(^^
^)
al
or
**
Ganjah
full
of treasures."
jjli:^.)
See the
Kulub,"
c. iv. (of
Maughan
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
43
Kardchdr,^ grandson of KdcMli Berlds,^ grandfather in the eighth degree of the emperor Taimur
Gurkdn
rection
of the
at present
styled Kdchdr,^
GoNG-i-DizH,^ a town of the second climate, in Turan it is the first inhabited place in the east:
ern direction.*
^M/
* This
u^^y J;rr^
'
^^
^^ %^^
al
name has
also
mukuddes"(
the Dictionary
jsJl ci^oo)
'*
Burhan-i-Kaet^,"
guage "
Ilia."
Here we
find the
by Hadrian
Gong-i-Diz
JElius,
(
The
lL)u^) and
was
near
It
the learned
Hyde
Veterum Persarum,"(c.
dinis est Ghang-dlz^'^
"Ex
&c.
44
(or Per'^
extending
in
to Mti-
ghan.^
Laknahuti/ a city of Bengal,* founded by Muhammed Bakhtydr Khilji,^ who was one of the learned men and nobles under the old Khilji
Sultans
;
territory
was
in former
now ruined,
and
b'^i
"a
city
also called
the
left
bank of
It
the
was the
No
part of the
ancient
Gour
Ganges than
washed by
now
Gour must
to three in
edition,
have extended
breadth."
p. 55.
2nd
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
45
Mareb/
Saba/ and
a city of
is
Yemen
it
is
also called
mentioned
in the
Koran, chapter of
SaM.
Machin,^ a considerable region near Chin
derives
its
:
it
whom
be peace
The
*
chief
this
cli-
Machin
is
is
called Tanktash
first
and
country
situated in the
in the
and second
*'
mates
shidi "
and
*
it is
work
entitled
Jamia Ra-
Uwj
'jiClOi-
In a very curious
MS.
belonging to Sir
W.
Ouseley's
Collection, and
numbered
of the
in his printed
an original
list
described as a
Khan and
his
Moghul nobles
t>iijl_5
4jU-
ytf^
f3f^^3 l->LJ1
<^'^j
t^^
46
originally
Maha-Chln
^
^
;
in
"maha"
same
signifies ''great,"
the
as Khita
and already
mentioned
in its place).
Mazinderan,^ a province of
of the
is
Iran,
:
on the shore
this
Sea of Gilan
(or the
Caspian)
country
in the third
Mahanesar,^ a
of Mazinderan.
Madain,^ a celebrated
one of
here
is
the Aivan-iit
was
or
*'
Irak Arab
and
Akasreh
tioned),
men-
Kadesiah,^^
Rumiah,"
and Nahrvan.^^
history
of the
Khans
or Sovereigns of
Kashghur
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
47
Medinah ar'rasul/
in
Arabia
there are of
claim the
are
title
Meden
Medin"
(cities);
these
Isfahan,
Marvshahjan,^
Nishaptir,
Kazvin,*
is
gene-
Nakhsheb J
(the final letter being the Indian t
in the
Marhat,^
Dekkan
nagar,^^
it
gives
name
to the
race of
Ahmedthe gate
Dekkan."
v*i
...
48
Masku/
called
it
is
also
Maskaw.^
territory of
MusHKANAT,^ a
province of Fars.
Shebankareh, in the
Mallakh/
Malibar/
or
Malakhah/
an island of Zirbad.^
first
a region of the
and second
cli-
Manaver/
MiJSH,^
of Jezireh
:
a city of Chin.
city in the province
was
Mausel/^ a
from
and
^^
derives
name.*
to
his followers.
This
happened
*
MS.
work
" Seir
al belad,"
J iUll
j^ dim.
iv.) is situated
and on
is
Bridge of Repentance
" for on
it
of Jonas, (on
whom
when having
wit-
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
49
Maibud/
is
said,
The
whom
this
be peace
!)
happened
at Nasirah
and the
first tribes
village
therefore they
1.2'
ffiessed
by him), they
The work
and
six
he writes as
if
10
37,
&c.)
*
Yazd
or
Yezd,
in the
(^)
50
renes)
to all
;
who
Najirem/ a
Nadiah,^ a
Basrah
city of
Bengal
Muham-
medan
religion) it
was regarded
as the capital of
that region.
its
chief
town
isTaktazanJ*
Mawer-el-nahr.
;
This city
in the
is
by the Turks
signifies
**
and
a pa-
lace
Kapak Khdn^^
lord of Mawer-el-nahr,
^^y')^
f^
c^
v^
in
writing this
name with k
( )
in the first
syllable, yet
it
ap-
MS. Geography
ItXaS'
of
Hamdallah Kazvini.
'*
who
writes
'*
Taftazan,"
Nuzahat-al-Kulub.")
first
But
as the
a, ,
syllable
may have
short.
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
51
name
Nasret-abad-Nirtu/ a
territory of
Herat
it
is
commonly
called
Nirtu.^
river
it
between Lahtir*
likewise
called
is
Ab-i-Sind/ or the
**
river of Sind."
Midway on
to
it
the
name
of
Kuh
Jelali,
:
and opposite
ano-
which
of
it
forms.*
Jelali
The mountain
derived
its
name
Kuh
which
is
related in various
"^
works:
When
Sultan
**
Neelab,
('
Hamilton's " East India Gazetteer." The name Nilab (" blue
water ")
is
by some
52
longer able
overwhelming host of
with his sword in his hand, from a rocky precipice fifty feet high, plunged into the whirlpool,
and reached
in safety the
mountain which
still
618
(of the
Muharamedan
by D'Herla
1221)
by Petis de
Croix
queror,
(in his
History of Gengizcan).
who
this
enemy by
related
by most
historians that
male children to be
to
immediately killed.
Of
those soldiers
who endeavoured
Moghul
arrows.
Seven however
made
various con-
was
many
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
Persia):
it
53
Sejestan.^
is
also called
ZabuP and
There
is
whom
be peace
:
!)
Nimruz was
it
a country
fit
for the
habitations of men.
As
the
Demons performed
the
duty assigned
(or
to
them
in the
at
the
name was
To
was sent
whom
be the blessing of
God!
but
as belonging to
Armenia.
J^lj
4jlL.cs^
ei"^
c/'J
.,lkw,
64
Hamaveran
this
name
city of
is
synonymous with
and that
Yemen ^
(or
Arabia Felix).*
Bahrein
*
;
Hazarjerib/ a
Azerbaijan.
territory
in
the province of
Hulandiah/
a country of Europe
the inha-
'^
<xj
'a^^
jolyt
j^."^
We
learn
(in
a name given
it
to the region of
Yemen; and
according to some
it
implies
Sham
(or Syria),
signifies
it
is
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
55
Sam ^
(Sheni), the
son of NoahJ^ on
whom
be the
peace of
the
God
him
name
after
of this personage
is
written Haitdl;^
^
;
and
named
which
restan,
denomination
htid/^
"
J1jUj&
Axe
-L
.y
JllaJJt)
10
..
11
(.
^ i.
was known
to
name of
Euthalites,
quasi
formosus."
(Geogr.
i\nc.
in
Sogdiana.)
The Haiateleh
writers,
by the
oldest Persian
who
with the Sassanian monarchs, and relate some curious anecThe Dictionary " Burhdn-i-Kate-^ " dotes of their kings.
informs us that Haiateleh
]s)
(^Uib
Arabic
letter in the
was
the
name
"
the
word Haitdl,
dialect of
Bokhara,
man
and
it is
also
a name
kingdom of Badakshan
56
Yazkant/
also
consi-
Several
to that country, of
which the
brious
;
air
tivation
know
of such a region,
from the
and earth
when
:
it
was
after
examined
all
Ui
^, The
'*
New
is
rendered
in
the
plural
Afa-
gheneh
"
O^ilj
_j
cX^b lily
_5
JX^ ^^y
j,i^j^
l^Ls?
ci^sAb
JlluSi
ysy^
ci^wjl xcUl
^f.
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c^.^
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OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
country, and wrote various books describing
57
it.
all
contributed
try
and
it
the
name
Yangi Dunia
new
world."
THE
GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS
SADIK ISFAHAN!.
No.
II.
The
TAKWIM AL BULDAN,
or
GO
N^
II.
TAKWiM AL BULDAN.*
THE
Names.
LETTER
I.
Long.
Lat.
Abisgun,
88 30
37 20
Abah,
Ajem
Akserai
Alan, a
85 68 30
34 30
40
territory bordering
on
83
Shirvan and
44 30
Amul,
zindenin
in the province of
Ma87 20
coast
.
36 40
Sea
135
55
* It appears
from a
letter of
Sir
ted
in
the Preface)
"from
:1)
the
Fortunate Islands,"
and of
" from
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any description of
lat.
in
long. 68-0,
iii.
38-0.
p. 94.)
The
name,
in
" white
palace, or mansion."
as a
it
town of Ka-
al
Irab," p. 39.)
62
Names.
Ubullah, a
or
canal
86
30 15
Abivard,
in
Khurasan,
'
be.
98 40
37 35
Atheniah, the
sophers
city of philo-
65 40
a place in Sind
UcHAH,
Ahmedabad, a place
nit in India
....
.
of Guje-
Akhlat,
Erbel, a
of Mausel
in
Armenia
....
district
.
Arjis, in Armenia
Ardestan, a
of Irak
Ajem
are, it is said,
prone to excessive
.
.
87
38
Arzenalrum, (Arzer'rum,) a
territory of
ders of
Rum
in
77
39 40
Urmieh,
Azerbaijan
the
.
province of
.
79
37
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Ul
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64
Names-
Abulistan,
a territory
near
Rum
. .
71
38 30
AsHAM, a
of Bengal
.
territory
.
on the north
.
.
132
35
Ac RAH,
(spelt
105
34
Amid
Hamid)
Fani)
(equivalent in
is
rhyme
to
a place of Diar'rabiah
in
73 40
38
Ani (equivalent
is
rhyme
.
to
.
a city of *
.
Armenia
.
79 88
41
31 30
Aberkuh
Otrar,
in Turkestan
. .
it is
.
also
.
called Fariab
*
99 30
The name
j|.
41 30
is
Not
MS.
J$J>
some-
geographer
Hamdallah
Mastowji,
in
his
(in his
"
Fars
to the
(in
Ajem
thus
Emin Rdzi
"
:
his
now
belongs to Irak
j^fo jijo
'*
jUl
^Jy
^^Jj
it
Jivlj
as a
j^L
jyyl
and the
town of Irak
Ajem.
city
We
and there-
fore
" Aber-Kuh,"
(or
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and
pressing
its
situation,
this
name
is
still
retained,
and
applied to the modern town, which, the old one having been
ruined,
was
in
built
on a plain not
far
from the
hill.
Aberkuh
appears
many remarkable
mound
or
and
interesting events.
still
Not
bably
exists,)
in
consequence of
a false accusation made by the queen, his enamoured and disappointed stepmother, was obliged to pass through a blazing
pile of
his innocence
by undergoing the
is
fiery
This circumstance
a favourite sub-
who
Shah Nameh,"
06
Names.
Ajmir,
in India
OF SaDIK isfahani.
t/b/
67
68
Names.
Lat.
AsFERAiiN
Arabic
SO,
according to the
is
manner,
pronounced
of
this
Asperaiin.
place,
for
The people
the
greater
;
number,
used
this
shields in battle
and on
account
**
acquired the
.
name
.
(from
siper," a shield)
92
36
on
.
the
.
borders
,
.
of
.
Seknak
AsuAN,
99 62
88 40 32
in the Said of
Egypt
88 30
in
30
Isfahan,
Irak Ajem
the
.
province of
.
.
.
86 40
32 35
kestan *
109
in India
.
44
Alahabad,
106 30
101 15
36
48 40
Amlak, a country
Andejan,
in
of Turan
Farghanah, a pro. .
vince of Tiiran
102
48
35 30
Antakiah,
in
Sham
(or Syria),
Rum
71 36
OF SAD IK ISFAHAN!.
69
ko
.....
rUiuj
70
Names.
OuDEH,
Turkestan
icH,
Zich,) a
.106 45
in
.
47 15
102 20
48 30
(equivalent in
rhyme
to
Shfraz
.89
.
30
37 30
Turkestan
105
40
34
30 58
andFerah
95 45
61 54
IsKANDERiAH (Alexandria)
Egypt
IsTAHBONAT, a placc of Shcbankareh
in Fars
. .
.
62
34
89
37 44
Akbernagar, in Bengal;
also
called
. .
Rajmahl
121
35
Ala MUX,
ritory of
Kazvin
is
according to
some
it
situated in Irak,
it
and
several reckon
as belonging to
. .
85 37
this
36 21
name,
Or
Istarbad.
see
the note on
"
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
71
jl
j\^ ^^ji
Jsi
iO^JoUUl
the
" Tahkik
al
72
Names.
Amasiah, a
city of
Rum
78
44
An BAR,
79 40
38
Anderab,
tan,
i.
a place in Tokhares.
e.
Badakshan
in
108 45
36
Anguriah, a place
called
after
Rum,
69 30
41
the
Arabic manner
Ankurla
Urkanj,
rezm
the capital of
Khua98 30
42
31
Ahwaz*
rar (in India)
85
106 30
20 15
Bab al abuab,
Babel,
in Irak
in Shlrvan
. .
84 30
79 40
48
31 40
Bajervan, a
territory
on the
van
the capital of
it is
Mahmud88
abad
38 30
Ahwaz,
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which
is
in the
74
Names.
94 30
in
35 20
Bamian,
Tokhdrestan, be.
102
34 30
35 15
Bahrein, an
island
87 30
Badakhshan, a
territory
.
of
.
107 30
37 20
in
109 30
29
Dekkan,
in India
104
21
Bastam, a place
in
Khurasan
89 30
36 10
BusRi, a place in
Syria)
Sham
(or
69 30
in
31 30
Balbek,
BikuiEH,
Shirvan
Sham
the
70 45
38 15
in
province of
85
in India
.
40 15
36
Benares, a place
107 20
Bokhara,
Transoxiana)
in
Maweral'nahr
.
.
(or
.
97 30
39 50
of Arran
88
40 30
Barudah,
in India
a place of Gujerat
109
in the province of
20
38
BosT,
Zabul
100
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
75
76
Names.
Lat.
Basrah,
Irak Arab
the
province of
. .
84
30
to
and Basrah
....
Arab
.
between Waset
82
Baghdad,
in Irak
B A LAS AG HUN,
in
Turkcstan
the
Bulghar, a country on
Kibckak
90 30
a place in Kirman, enti-
49 30
Bam,
Kal^ e Haftvad" *
territory
in
94
38 30
Benkesh, a
Kuhistan
of Kabul
(or
the
mountainous region)
. . .
.
105
32
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77
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Ji
c-jy: jly: ^1
2$^
J J
<w^
.....
^ L*ilj
c;^
e^vojl
<0J
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jyw
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f^f^,
^^y^.
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Burhan-i-Kate^ "
in
t>]J^.)
7S
Names.
Syria;
*'the
.
Holy.
House
66 30
32
32 30
101
36 40
of the Desht-
capital of that
.
.
country
85 20
46 30
Benaket,
tinguished
in
Ferghaneh,
dis-
also
.
by the
title
of
Shahrukhlah
100
Behbehan, a
castle in Fars
Bahlwah
BiANAH, a place
in India in
117 30
in the
36
BiJANAGAR, a country
southern
part
of India,
in
the
Dekkan
BiR, a place of the Dekkan, in
120
42
India
105 30
18 30
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;
yC*
x^
I
^'
JoiJ&
:1
^^Lw
80
Names.
misat
78 45
territory of Sabzvar
in
35 15
Baihak, a
91 40
35 20
109
47
Sham
(or Syria)
67 15
32
BiLKAN, a place
of Arran
in the province
83 30
chief place of the
39 50
Baineh, the
.109
34 30
PisHAVUR,
in India
106 15
121
38 15
21
134
21
Pushang, a
tan
place in Afghanis-
102 45
in the
31 30
PisHBALiGH,
country of
Oighur
108
35 50
^ W
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82
Names.
Long.
Lat.
Turkistan
100
48 39
Talishtstan*
84
Tahert Ulia,
hert,)
(or the
in
.
Upper Ta35
a place
Maghreb, or
. .
Western Africa
48
Tahert Sufli,
(or
Lower Ta.
Maghreb
36
39
and
fifth
climate
.105 30
82
39
38
Sham
(or Syria)
58
40
Tadmor,
(Syria)
place
in
Sham
72
38
31 30
Turbet, a
territory of Khurasan
78
92 30
35
93 30
34 30
Of Talishistan
(as of
some other
articles in this
work) the
by the
transcriber of
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
83
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<J^^^
5!;
c:^*wJtojl
Ij^ cuyfcli
LI
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:\
'iSc^-
y.;^
Li
S>-y.*i
^^%^
e
wjLs^
;1
r^y
Talishistan, however,
al
is
al-
ready mentioned
in the
**
Tahkik
Irab,"
p. 15.
84
Names.
120
35 30
TosTER, a place
in the province
. .
ofKhuzistan
.100 50
in
.
37 20
94
36 45
84 30
78 30
31 30
Tekrit, a place
in
Diarbekr
35 30
Tekinabad,
(or
Tekniabad,*)
.
.
a town of Kandahar
108
48
TiNKiT, a place
in
Turan, called
.
.
101
48
between
Africa
and
101 30
38 20 48
ToKAT, a place
in
Rum
in
70
Tun, (equivalent
Khun,) a
city of
rhyme
to
Khurasan
. .
in the
vicinity of
Tabs
.92
30
34 15
90 30
'*
36 15
Tekni-
By
a transposition of
letters, this
name appears
abad" (jblxlG)
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iii.
p.
116148.
86
Names.
India
110
38
its
chief
.
town
.
is
called
.
.
Nuvanagar
107
38
Khurasan
94 76
34 40
2140
Jerpadkan,
tween Isfahan
this is the
in Irak
Ajem, be-
and
Hamadan
as Gulpai-
same place
gan
JuRJANiEH, in the province of
85 30
34
Khuarezm
94 30
128
42 32 30
Jammu, a territory in
Suvalek
the Kuhis-
.,
110
36 42 30
98
84 10
3150
104
47
87
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88
Names.
India
10 30
36 15
JuzjANAN, a
territory in
.
the
.
province of Khurasan
98
35 30
107
in
36 15 34
Jehangirnagar,
Bengal
124
Jahrum,
to
(equivalent in
in
rhyme
.
Mardum,) a place
JiROFT, in
Fars
.
89 45
98 30
38 15
Kirman
38 30
Chatgam, a
est borders of
fines of
Rakhang Chapchemal,
127
32 30
a place in Kur-
sutun
82 30
a
34 30
Cheghanian,
Chikil,
country
of
.
101 10
38
Turkestan,)
98 30
45 30
Chandiry, a place
in India
of Malw^ah
105 40
38 36
88
An
name
in the original
manuscript
it
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89
Ul
^.
90
Names.
72
38
place
between
76 30
Mekkah
ritory of
(the Great)
and Medinah
in
.
38 30
Haditheh, a place
Mausul
the ter.
.77
.
10
34 15
Harran, a place
Mesopotamia)
.
in Jezireh (or
. .
78
36 40
Harmi,
sinia)
in
.
Habsheh
.
(or
Abys.
65
10
HisiRisHADMAN, a placc
weralnahr (Transoxiana)
in
.
Ma.
102 30
38 30
Hisnkeifa,
Jezireh
.
in the province of
. . . .
74 30
37
Haleb,
(Sham)
(Aleppo,)
in
Syria
72 10
32 50
it
is
Irak
102 15
34
side of
be.
79 40
32
Hamah,
Syria)
a place in
Sham
(or
71 30
34
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Names.
Hems,
Sham
(or Syria),
be-
meshk (Damascus)
HuwizEH, a place
tan (or Susiana)
70 40
34
in
.
Khuzis.
.
88 30
30 30
Dekkan
(in India)
121
10
cities
of
two
far-
79 30
31 30
t
Khalik, a place
in
Makran
80
39
Khanbaligh, a name
ing
the
city of
is
signify-
the
Khan
Kadn
(or
Prince),
oi
t\ie
wov\i^ oi Kibld
.124
Irak
48
Khanekein, two
other
cities of
with the
80 40
of Khura.
38 49
Khebushan, a place
98
36 30
Khebis,
in
Kirman
is
the desert
called Lut-i-Khebis
well
known
94
31
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94
Names.
Khatlan, a
on Balkh
territory
in
the
37
Khoten, a country
tan
107 30
in
42
Khojend, a place
Ferghaneh,
is
of Khojend
100 30
41 15
KHURMABAD,a
vince of Luristan
88 88 45
38
39
88
37 30
35 30
Khuaf, a
to
it
98
35 20
86 30
31 30
Azerbaijan, on
.
.
the
.
borders of Selmas
79 40
57 40
Khaiar, a
district near
Medi-
fortress
.
Alt
74 30
34 30
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95
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c:^^jjj| <)uo-lj
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90
Names.
'
96 15
40 30
85
45 30
88 30
37 45
Damghan,
pur
in
the province of
36 20
DizHFUL, a place
(or Susiana)
>
Khuzistan
.
.
84
31 50
DisAR, a place in
Yemen
. .
(or
.
Arabia Felix)
76 30
18 30
Damavand,
Irak
in the province of
.
Ajem
87 20
36 45
70
38 15
Damkileh, (Dongola,)
bia,
in
Nuriver
53 40
17 30
Daman,
in India
Dekkan
.
.80
15
18
Damiat, (equivalent
to the
in
metre
word Farhad,)
is
a place in
Egypt
68 30
of
.
31 20
Dowletabad, a place
kan
in
Dek.
India
104 30
18 30
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
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97
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98
Names.
Dahistan, a
Dehli,
territory of
.
Khur. .
91 15
37 15
India
at
most
dian sovereigns
88 35
39
104
21
DiBEL,
(or,
according to the
DiwEL,) a place
in
.
Sind
.
102 30
35
32 50
Deirakul
DiLMAN, a
after
80 35
territory so
named
hero
:
Dilem,
celebrated
among
lan.
it is
situated
toDilman
in Kurdistan,
88
35
the meaning of
to
name is equivalent
in Persian,
**
Kakh-i-
Rajah
villa,
the palace, or
.
.
of the prince
121
18
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100
Names.
THi:
GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS
Long.
Lat.
Ras el Aien, a
101
ui
^.
'^
102
Names.
Zaranj,
97 88 40
32 30
36 45
35 20
ZuzEN, a place
in
Khurasan
94
120
38
104 15
38 15
Sari, a city in
Mazinderan
in Irak
84 45
85
Saveh, a place
Saba,
place in
(also
Ajem
called Mareb,) a
(or
Yemen
in
Arabia Felix)
.
78
91 30
Sabzvar,
Khurasan
88 18
36
39
32 30
Serandib, an island
dian Ocean, (Ceylon)
in the In.
.
130
1110
i-Kibchak
the distance of
(or
it
from
four
.
Bab
al
abuab
Derbend)
is
105 20
48 30
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
103
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Jo
Jjb_^
(J L^.*J
ial
Ll-'v*o.^
se^ <)UwlJ^
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104
Names.
Sarakhs, a place
SuRMENRAi,
Irak Arab
in
Khurasan
94 30
37
in the province of
.
.
79
34
word
Khuriij,)
is
.
a place in
.
.
Sham
(or Syria)
72 45
36 15
.87 30
39
105
(Sicily,)
38 15
SuKiLiAH,
in the sea of
an island
.
Sham
(or Syria)
60
37 10
Saruhi, a place
in India
in
Rajputaneh
100
32 30
SuLTANABAD,
in
Kurdistan
.
102
102
35
Serhind,
S ALMAS, a
in India
30
37 30
city in Azerbaijan
79 15
(or
107 30
east-
48 30
98 30
47 40
.126
34 30
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
105
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jJ
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laJ
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106
Names.
Samarkand,
of that country
in
Mawer
.
el
nahr
(or Transoxiana),
.
and the
capital
.
.99
(or
16
39 37
SuMisAT, in
Sham
(or Syria),
but, according
is
to
.
in
Rum
72 35
37 40
Semenjan,
hun
in the province of
102
Is.
36
86
32 15
76
in
36
Sanbehel,
banks
of
India,
on the
(or
.
the
.
river
.
Gong
.
Ganges)
108 30
32
19
SuR AT, a
(or
sea-port of Gujerat
in
.
100
Maghreb
. .
Western Africa)
55 30
32
107 40
32
37
SuHRVARD,
in Irak
Ajem
.
88 20 88
91
39
39 30
0 SADIK ISFAHANI.
107
LI
isutf
...
ti>^l
S-J^
o^P^
L^
^'
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108
Names.
SivAS, a place in
Rum
.
71 40
39 30
Saknak,
(or Scythia)
is
a place in Turkistan
.
,
.
99 30 84
48 15
36 30
34 30
SuLTANiEH,
in Irak
Ajem
Salami AH,
in
Sham
(or Syria)
710
Samnan, a place
in Irak
Ajem,
88 30
36
Shabran,
in the territories of
(or
Bab
al
abudb
Derbend). It
is
^^e;2'5pit,orwell,"wasatthisplace*
84
42
Shuburghan, a
Balkh
Shiki, a
district
territory
of
100
near Shlrvan
,0
37 15
810
(^jijo), for
**
48
Bizhen
(^j^jo),
so the
Burhan-
by
the
as
some
affirm,
by the daughter) of
Rmtam
( JLi.).
of the princess
in
OF SADIK ISFAPIANI.
U^if-
109
J^^^
Ic
.
y
r
CI-^^1
fi^ v'
KJ^!i^
^.
110
Names.
Shamakhi,
Shlrvan
84 30
40 50
31 30
...
Ajem^
86
Shahrzur,
in
Kurdistan, be.
81 30
34 30
Shahrfiruzan,
on the banks of the
rud
in Irak
river
Zendeh87 20
32 35
88
39 36
Shaizer, a place in
ria)
.
Sham (Sy.
.
70
34 30
Suhar, a place
in
Omman
84
66 30
14 20
Sarhad,
in
Misr (Egypt)
a
district
30
Saaid Misr,
Egypt
Sakchi, on
in
.
61 30
34 30
the
;
borders
of
Charkez (Circassia)
and from
(Conis
.
stantinople)
the
distance
a
.
64
49 30
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Ill
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Lllruwi
112
Names.
Sanaa,
lix)
in
Yemen
(Arabia Fe-
77
14 30
Sham
68 30
32 38 69
Seida, in
Sham
(Syria)
Tarum,
in Irak
Ajem, in the
.
.
ter.
ritory of Sultanieh
84
36 45
Talekan,
province of Dilman
85 45
36 55
Talekan,
Tokhcirestan,
(of
Badakshan,) in
between
.
.
Ghaznin
.
.
and Balkh
102 50
37 39
(in
farsangsfrom
Mekkah
in
(the Great)
(or Syria)
77 40 68
21 20
Tabarieh,
Sham
32
Tab AS
the
Gilek, in
Khurasan
92 30
38
Tabas
Ma sin a, in
,
the province
.
of Khurasan
94 15
38 15
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
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113
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.
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114
Names.
Trabulus
Sharek,
(or the
Eastern,) a place in
ria),
Sham
(or
.
(Sy-
69 40
34
Trabulus
Western,) in
Gharb,
the
.
Sham
52
32
99 50 on the sea-coast of
.
44 31
Tarsus,
Sham
san
(Syria)
72
36
92 30
36
t
Aaneh, one of the towns of Jezireh (or
Mesopotamia)
76 30
34
A BAD AN,
Arab
Aden,
.
.84 30
coast
.
39 20
in
Yemen, on the
.
76
41
rian Sea^
32 45
AsKER MuKREM,
Susiana)
.
Ahwaz
.
(or
.
84 30
31 15
in
Sham,
.
68
38 30
OF SADIK ISFAHANl,
U^^f
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115
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116
Names.
Anezeh, a place
in
Yemen
in
74 10
17
40
Aaiun
as'
Shams,
Egypt, to
.
.
61
39
its
and ignorant
99
37 32 15
Ghurreh,
in
Sham
66 10
102 50
Ghaznah,
tan,
in Zabulistan
38 30
Ghur, a country
abounding with
tains
of Tokhareslofty
moun. .
and thick
forests
99
34
Ghuteh Demeshk,
in Syria
70
and Meimand
Fas,
giers)
99
37
39
32 30
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
117
i^
LQawJ
^y^
Ji
118
Names.
FuRAVAH,
in
.
the province of
. .
Khuarezm
91 30
Farah, a place
in Sistan
97
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
119
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Jl^l
C-5
^^J^
i^twJ
J J
J-all
i}>^
i^
c5
<n:>*^
^^.
'^P/-<Uvjjl
120
Names.
Kars, a castle or
(near to) Nakhjewan.
fortress
of
The name,
mode
of
81
40
in the pro-
Rum,
or, as it is said
.
by
.
some, in Diarbekr
78 30
39 30
Kahirah, the
Egypt
chief
city
of
68 20
san
38 40
102
37 30
KuBRus, an island
Armenia,
Syria)
of the Lesser
in the sea of
. .
.
Sham
.
(or
.
66 15
35
66 50
32
Karabagh,
Arran
.
in the province of
.
82 15
39 15
Karashahr,
of
in
.
the
.
province
.
.
Rum
70
110
40
47
Karakurm, a
place in Turan
OF SaDIK ISFAHAN!.
121
!0
122
Names.
KoRTOBAH, the
dalus
(the
:
capital of
Anone
.
from
this city to
Mekkah
is
38 36
38
74 40
34 20
Ra88
city in Irak
Ajem
.
KOSTANTINIAH
Bahrein
the sea-shore
64
86
39
34 45
KuM,
a city of Irak
Ajem
KuMisHEH,
andFars
.
between Isfahan
.
. .
.87
15
3140
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
123
124
Names.
KuNDUz,
dakshiin,
on the banks
.
of
.
the
.
river Amtiieh
88
37
Kandahar,
as
in
Zabulistan, or,
.
. .
some
say, in Sind
100 50
KiNNisERiN, a place in
(or Syria)
.
.
Sham
. .
72
105 50
66 30
Kanuj,
KuNiEH,
in India
in the province of
Rum
:
capital of Africa
Mekkah
fifty
is
eight
farsangs
....
.
hundred
and
KisARiEH, in
Sham
(or Syria),
on the sea-coast
Kaiserieh, a place in
Rum
Kaium,
in
Egypt
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
(>^/
125
J 1^1
Ul
126
Names.
Kazerun, a
Kashan,
city in Fars
87
39 20
Ajem
86 20
34
Kashghar, the
Turkistan
chief place of
106
44
Jumneh
116
35 30
35
Katur,
(or
"Siah
Pushan,"
who wear
106
Kabul
in
37
K AC HUD,
Rustemdar
the
.
province
.
of
.
86 50
36 30
36
Kach-had, a
borders of Bengal
district
.
on the
.
.127
36
Karbela,
Irak Ajem
in
.
the
province of
.
73 50
31 30
Hamadan
Kat, a place
84 45
34
41 36
in
Khuarezm
95 15
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
127
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,43
CL^vwjI ^J^^I;
U^5i
.
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.
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ci
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.
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^js^
.
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.
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^
.
r^
j!^v^
^V
128
Names.
Kash,
in
Maweralnahr,
the
Emir
.
Taimur Gurkdn
99 30
39
KisHTWAR, a mountainous
gion of Kashmir
. .
re.
109
26
Kashmir, a country
south of which
is
on the
;
the Panjab
on
Badakhshan
is
.
called Srinagar
108
38
Kaluran, a place
in Turkistan 107
30
47 15
(Cambay)
108 30
20
K am RAN,
to
an island belonging
Felix)
.
71 15
15 30
98
107
39 15
Kupa, a place
in
Russia
48 30
KuFAH,
Arab
79 30
31 30
KuKEN, a country
on the sea-shore
.
of
Dekkan
102
17
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
129
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aj>
Ic
^^
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c:^v**^j
j$^_^
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^'
c:^^) uT'^y?;^
k^
130
Names.
KuH
KiLuiEH,
a territory in
.
.
.8615
.
30
38
KicH, in Makran
99
108
47
<J
Gasgar, a
vince of Gllan
territory in the pro.
. . .
84 30
38 30
85 30
41 30
Ganjah, the
vince of Arran
88
41 15
GwALiAR,
Akberabad
114 40
36
GuwAH
Dekkan
(Goa), a sea-port of
in India
...
As the
soil
36
**
of Bengal
full
of
Of
this
ren-
dered illegible
the
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
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131
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ko
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.
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.
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ci^^^lyU J
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ci^vwi joijb^]
;;y^y
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characters that
article
j^^
jd
Goa
in the
immediately preceding.
132
Names,
water, there
is
it
has therethis
.
name from
.
.
circumstance
122
36
35 30
muz
Lahjan,
Gilan
.
91
in
37 30
the
.
province
.
of
.
85 20
37 30
Lahur (Lahore),
which
as
it
in India
of
it
now
the capital
109 30
32
37 30
Lahsa,
in
Bahrein
88 30
Mardin, a
summit of a mountain
74
37 15
Makeduniah,
Dekkan
in
Greece
a
60
410
48
Majhli Pa tan,
place in
128
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
Kjo^f
133
Jl>l
CJ^^j'^^i
uS^
134
Names.
MoKHA,
(or
a sea-port in
Yemen
72
18
ofZabid
Madain,
Arab
80 15
in Syria
. .
.
38 20 39
Medin, a place
65 20
75 20
Medinah Taibeh
Maraghah,
Azerbaijan
35 20
in the province of
.
82
36 30
37 30
Marakesh,
in Africa
49
72
12
Marand,
to the
(equivalent in metre
in
.
Azerbaijan
81 15
37 50
which
in the
time of the
province
97
37 40
from Marvshahjan
97
36 30
Mazdekan, a
Ajem
place
in
Irak
84 10
36
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
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Jl^l
135
[^]
t L-^^
SX>J i>jJo-
jd
^^^
C:^^*^.;
sXi
u^
^^
136
Names.
Mazinan,
Khurasan
the province of
90 30
a harbour on the
36
Mashkat,
Om man
.
88
18
Mash-hed Mukuddes
the province of Khurasan
Tus, in
.
92 45
36
Mash-hed-i-Sar, a place
in
Amol
eight farsangs*
87 40
37
Masisah, a place
in Syria
69 40
36 45
sim
71 45
35
Makran,
Kirman
.
a province adjoining
.
.
98
37 35
MekkahMaazmeh
(the great
.
.
or highly-honoured city)
77 10
35
men-
tioned by Sir
W.
Ouseley,
who
^),
to
Amul he found
teen
miles.
it
to be a
journey of
five farsangs, or
about eigh-
he
learned that
the
tomb of a
certain saint or
OF SADIK ISFAHAN!.
137
c^
(jU/^j^
u^>*
iid
<u
tc
^]^
Im^m
Zadeh(jsjl.
or
meshhed
is
used to
in religious veneration
iii.
by the Muhani-
Travels,
vol.
Thus
the city
Tus, noticed
in the
article
Mukuddes, from
Imam
Riza.
138
Names.
Malazjerd, a place
nia
in
Arme77 38 45
MuLTAN,
and Lahore
between
. .
Kandahar
.
107 30
39 40
Rum,
near ibul71
37
Manij,
in
Syria
72 15
after
Mansur
for in his
time
....
Mausel, on
it is
so
called on account of
diate situation
its
interme-
77
34 30
MuGHAN,
of
a territory adjoining
Khazar
(or the
Caspian)
.
88 30
38 40
44
34 30
the chief
.
.
140
32
In
this article
three
or
four
words
liave
been effaced
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
139
jj
i:i
;*lx
^j>.,y^ tj'-jyo
Lii^wji
i^Awl^j
iXi
JsJu^
4jls^.b; Jl_5
^\ty,
by
wet.
140
Names.
75 20
38
MiRETEH,
between the
the
Ganges
and
Jamen
(or
River Jumna)
.101
35 30
Meimand,
Zabulistan
the province of
. . .
81 15
38 20
68 18
in India
.
. .
32 30
34
Nakur,
110
Naiin, (equivalent in
rhyme
to
of Isfahan
88
32 30
Najran,
Felix)
in
Yemen
(or
Arabia
76
20
Nejef Ashref,
of Irak
in the province
.
Arab
79 30
31 30
Nakhjuvan, in Azerbdijan
Christian church called
siai is
the
Uch
.
Kali.
situated there
81
39 30
]4l
ad
ii
J^^
Jj
^*
142
Names.
Nakhsheb,
and
it
Mawerelnahr
is
called
by the Turks
98
Karshi
NisiBiN, in the province of Jezireh
39
75 30
. .
36
81 50
32 50
of
.
87 15
32 10
Nuhavand,
a place of Jebal, in
the territories of
Hamadan
it is
.
88 15
38 20
Nahrwaleh,
rat in India
;
a place of Guje-
and
.
now
called
. .
PiranPatan
109
32
Nahrwan,
in the province
of
Irak Arab, on
the east
of the
between
. .
80
92 30
38
36 21
Wadi-el-Kari
this
name
is
70
35
Waset
is
at present con.
.8130
32 20
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
143
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y
y
r
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.
Joul.
c/
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li
4_5<wJ
ji
L^
ti
Li'
<xU.4>
^ ^J^
.
JjAs^ ^"^S^-t
V^L^
li
<)cliJ
^^L^ L->T
144
Names.
Van, belonging
to the province
menia
Veramin, a place
tory of Rai
73
37
....
in the terri.
86 40
88 15
35 30
37
Urujerd
HiCHLI
Herat,
tal
....
. ;
128
in
Khurasan
the capi-
of that province
in
Hirkelah,
Rum
HoRMuz, an
Hezarasp,
Khuarezm
....
is
province of
Hamadan,
India,
a city of Irak
Ajem
88
where
situated the
.
tomb of Muld
Du
Pidzah
.115
15
32
of Irak
78 15
34
145
J 1^1
W
^^1
jl
Jj^-_5
J^y^
.)ib
jlJ^
;J
xtXcU*
^ioCJj
c:^^U ">?^
LTV
)U
B J>A^ j^
(^
<b
^*
jj
JO
,w
146
Names.
Yajuj-u-Majuj
.139 30
89
48
Yazd,
(or
Yezd,)
in the pro.
.
vince of Irak
Ajem
32 30
Ajem
.87
40
31 30
Yakuba, a
village belonging to
Baghdad
it
was founded by a
.
.
88 30
38 15
82 30
a place in
.
.
38
Yangi Shahr,
province of
the
.
Rum
69 30
39
OF SADIK ISFAHANI.
u^^f
147
J>1
Ul
,^M)
ADDITIONAL NOTES,
&c.
P.
16.
is
P. 25. Dar
of Mazinderan
el
Marz,
Marzeban,
their
or
"
Some
of those
chiefs,
their
enemies
Demons,"
or
'*
such as the
Dlv-i-Sefid (joca^
y j),
the
''White Giant:"
&c.
p.
Div-i-Surkh
^^^
W.
work
'
yt))>
^he
"Red Demon,"
vol.
This
we
Ouseley's Travels,
(p.
iii.
238
:
and
the same
(^jbr-o),
570.)
is
" Marzeban
this,
with
(cap.
many
i.
may
in
be found
in the
Talmud
Hebrew
letters,
:nnD (Marzbeni),
ix.)
*
the vel
learned Reland,
(Dissert,
praefectum
provinciae
sitae.'
is
3557.)
*
The Persian
or
terra
compounded of marz
and ban
^), the
boundary,
border of a country;'
'
(^jb),
keeper or gutirdian,
150
to
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
*
gardener,' &c.
Marz
is
also
written
Marj
(-^-), resembling
both
in
the
With
this signification,
the singular
march: yet I
find
In
marche
to
To
this quotation
from
W.
Ouseley's work
may
hesitate to use
:
march
" In
in the singular
for he
Ebro
;"
and
in
The governors
xlix.
note 108.)
P.
29.
In
this
first
SatidemA and
This
article
MS. by
the
translator,
(who wished to consult a friend respecting some oband accidentally mislaid, the omission " Satidema " in
is
in
proper place.
:
reader
"
Satidema
is
Rum.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
The
battle
151'
R6m
hap-
pened at
this place,
called
*
Satidem^
bash,
;
'
that
is
to
interpreted
in
Persian,)
Zud
keh khun
biarem.'"
One MS.
j^b
hashed
but whatever
may be
name
j-j
CJui^
i9^
Gony-
L^JJk^)
we may add
that the
name appears
strangely
disguised, as
Cancadora
Tables of Nastr
(See Hudson's
ad'din
Tusi,
who
places
vol.
iii.
in
long.
180.
Minor Geographers,
p.
115.)
P.
50.
Nibtish.
for the
Euxine
copyists,
from
>Jaju
Bontus,
who do
P, would
write
Pon-
P.
116.
Gharjistdn
Gharchistan
''
(^LL^y:),
that
admirable
find
work, the
Nuzahat
al
Kulub"
(ch. xvii.)
we
scribed
Khurasan
^ loo
J
I
cijijJU- xi^y^j^
j$^b
u^^
^^^^
f
(vW ^Vj^
^^
^f
u^j^3
^j
bis^e
v-^^'
^^^ ^}^
^y^^
^;^
152
**
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Gharcheh
is
a territory of the
fourth climate,
its
longi-
its
latitude
Among
and
in
the dependencies of
about
fifty villages,
bitants
it
P. 116.
written
as
Ghaznah (^x).
(Jj),
The name of
(
this
city
is
also
Ghaznav
Ghazni
jo^),
we
Burhdn-i-Kate^," which
informs
us that
it
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INTRODUCTION.
The
is
here
was, with
other Eastern
many
years
William
it
Ouseley,
through
whose
kindness
Having
lately availed
Sadik Isfahani's
I shall here,
Geographical
Works,"
The
little
work which
IV
INTRODUCTION.
was brought
my
who gave
it
to
me
" short
time
before his
tract,
death as
very
and useful
probably unique
even in India.
He
" author, a
some
pupil,
whose
he wished to
" nicies
" "
whom
"
more
competent judge,)
manuscript
" lay,
"
my
'A
list
" fifty
"
"
"
But having resolved last year to compile an account of my own collection, I found
IIS'TRODUCTION
"
it
little tract
some
not
certain
books and
am now
of
" result
" little
my
to
recommend
to
this
Essay,
" "
and
" if "
" myself,
" manuscript.
"
Of the author
you a more
:
it
is
not in
my
power
to
al-
full
ready stated
his
appear, nor
" has
"
he decorated
pompous
or flowery
(like so
many
of
"
libraries con-
Catalogues in
title
general afford
little
of
m
" a
INTRODUCTION.
book,
sometimes
adding
the author's
"
work.
reader
" inquisitive
On many is much
occasions the
disappointed,
himself,
"
even
by
Haji
Khalifah
the
and
" against
" his
'
D'Herbelot,
who has
inserted in
"portion
" Zuniin.*
Haji
Khalifah's
'
Kashf
al
On
tices of
Commen-
mentions
Haji Khalifah,
call
or, as his
fellow-countrymen, the
(
Turks, generally
him,
Katib Chelebi
^ l-jJX]1
Aj^
L^^)
ui/i^^
" qui
in opere
suo
^^]
^_^L] ^z ^y^l
quemadmodum
in adjecta auctoris
We
learn from
Mr. Mitchell,
INTRODUCTION.
" It " "
Vll
"
"
"
that,
some
" extracts
"
as
Hasuffi-
"
Haji KhalIfah's
" History of
lished
the Maritime
Wars
by
author's
name was,
-s^U-
<!dJ]
A\c
iia%a
and that he
Europe
(the
know, that a
Kashf
al
work
a printed
list
;
will
show
" Dictionary translated by Monsieur Gustavo Flugel. This " valuable Arabic work, which formed the groundwork of
*'
D'Herbelot's
'
" of upwards
**
ish
VIU
"
INTRODUCTION.
Of
which
now
con-
circumstances
it
directs
our notice to
little
;
" historical
"
manuscripts but
known,
of some,
"
The
recommends this
that
it
offers
;
may be
not only
singular
the
title
" it
A Critical
"
Works, Arabic
and Persian,
illustrating
and
and
" Spain
"
for
such
is
its
extensive
range,
comprehending, in
fact, all
those regions
"
" sovereigns.
Your continued
INTRODUCTION.
"
IX
me
to
renew
my
on a
and
dear
Sir,
am,
my
yours, &q.
"William
**
Ouseley.*'
offer of assist-
under
and
recommended by
by
him, since
it
myself
In representing by means of our
throughout the following pages,
letters
have ob-
Work
of Sadik Isfahani
this
is
the system
mended by
1
Com-
In his
in
Dissertation
Letters,"
Words
Roman
Asiatic Researches,
X
mittee,
INTRODUCTION.
according to which " the letter h
is
used to express
ca//,
and
as
z,
accented in
and
as in Shir/iz
above men-
tioned
and
u,
sound of our
KixfafL
&c.
thus in
i,
letters (a,
a,
and
u,)
;
as in
:
man,
i
battle
Marv, &c.
in
n, as
mutter, &c.
as Sir
William
used
in
Jones remarks
in
his
may " be
express the
vocal sound;
and
the
his
e
:
we
and
perveresh
(j^j^j^),
&c.'
*'
Geographical
Works,"
It
may be
INTRODUCTION.
XI
titles
The names
occur,
of authors and
of
Mafirst
printed
in
;
their proper
Arabic or
Persian characters
titles are
and
as those
names and
arrange-
crowded together
One
is
names and
of books
titles
another
is
an Index
and
Each Index
useful.
may
prove
J. C.
of
thus, keh
for ceh
(^), &c.
CRITICAL ESSAY
ON
In
the
name of God,
After
all
due praises
to
known
to those
who
information respecting the most useful and excellent chronicles, that they
to find
any
single
who have
reigned in different
in-
as
because,
if
any inge-
nious writer
who undertook
a general compilation
his
had accomplished
2
design, the
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
work would have amounted
size,
to a
hun-
or even to a
Thus the author of that celebrated chronicle entitled the " Habib al Siyar,"^ whose object was
KhondemIr
juJl L-^ooj>.
Of this work
the author
was
(or,
more
literally,
Khavend emIr
j^l
MiRKHOND,
respecting
shall
be
among European
al Seir, as
work by Habib
D'Herbelot
styles
it in
c'est
some English Orientalists also have entitled it Habib al Sir^ or But, on the authority of two the " Friend of Travellers.''
learned Orientalists,
the
Baron de
may be
word
here observed
Sir in this
**
title,
for
jj
j^
a particular
life,
word
bashar
authors.
among Eastern
This
is
confirmed by the
full title
Habib al Siyar,
Ft akhbdr efrdd
signifying,
**
al bashar
among men."
In
also a play
on the
first
3
has
manner of an
dynasties
abridgment,
concerning
many
royal
made
comera)
at
whose request
Khondemir
Muhammedan
927
(of Christ,
1521). See
Universelle de Mirkhond,"
by M. Am. Jourdain,
volume of
**
Imperial, &c.
^
u-> JU)
The West,
the
more
particularly
countries
we
call
very
Map,
illustrating
(
^
|
that rare
Sur
al
buldan,"
jJJ]
Sir
dh)
the North-
western
(or
Muhammedan)
territories
'*
We
among
only
word {Maghreb)
all that
Egypt
to the Atlantic
and the
3
jjijt)
Strait of Gibraltar.
or
Hindustan
Lu.Aa2&)
as
the
author in some
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
any mention.
work
(the
'*
Habib
Siyar")
fills
volumes.
* UxaJI
ho^j
The
**
(as
we
generally abridge
brated author's
full
Muhammed
tXJ.U-
ben Khavend
li.
iV=^)*
^^
j^)'
it
written
tjJ.U^
The Rauzet
in his
**
al Safa or,
Casiri,
MSS.
(vol.
ii.
p.
68) styles
The Garden
Deliciarum,) consists
of seven jild
sides
in
(jsL=>-)
the
Khdtemdh (jc^U^)
W.
Ouseley,
the
Catalogue of his
Oriental
Rauzet al
Safa
" a
MSS.,
celebrated
generally called
Mirkhond.
The seven
volumes
all
and
ififth
parts being
bound
together),
in
the
original
is
magnificent and
well
in
uniform
binding.
;
The
known
to Orientalists
odd volumes
are preserved
series of
many
collections, but
complete
may be
Mirkhond died
hh^on^Khondemir quoted
by minute
for
in his accounts of
some he
is
diffuse
and prolix,
summary.
Thus, of the Beni
Ommiah
he treats very
by M. Am. Jourdain
tome
ix. p. 6).
(*'
MSS." &c.
* <)xl
Ommiah,
a consi-
derable personage
among
the
Arabs
Abd al Shams
j*,.^]j^.
is,
from
Muselman era
not
by the Beni Abbas or Abbasides, had Abdar'rahman ben MoavIah preserved it in Spain,
to reign in
where he began
the year
(or
Ommiah dynasty
(in
that
country until the year 424 (or of Christ 1032). See the " Bibliotheque Orientale " of D'Herbelot
the article
in
Ommiah), and
a detailed account of
excellent work, the
this
dynasty
The Tdrikh
composed
of the
in
or
Chronicle of the
(
Arabic by AssiUTi
Js*juJI ) gives
a history
Ommiah who
reigned in Spain.
D
fully,
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
and
to
'^
Beni Abbas
but slightly.
The
i^br
Ju
We
learn
KhalIfahs
the year
656
(or
MAmun
(A.H. 200,
this
of Christ 815)
family amounted to
list
D'Herbelot gives a
see the
of the
thirty-seven
Abbasside
Sovereigns;
" Bibliotheque
**
Major Price's
Retrospect of
Mohammedan
''
^^1.
^^y Under
is
name
De
try
which
Persian Gulf, the River Jaihun (or Oxus) and the River
Indus, whilst they express by the
part of Asia which
<*
name
of
Turdn
all
that
lies
(See the
Memoires
&c.
p. 52.)
Thus the word Turdn implied Scythia, Transoxiana, Turkomania, the country of Tatars (or, as we
call
it,
Tartary), &c. It
M.
W.
Ouseley,
" Observations on Medals and Gems bearing Pahlavi Intwo or three centuries the reigning Sas'*
King of
the Kings of
; ;
his pages
even the
to the
charge of deficiency
or corrected
or omission, which
must be supplied
men
of Maghreb^^
and
skill
names equivalent
Turdn.
(in
in
signification to the
We
learn
**
voce) that
Turan
the
name of a
Ab
Amu
(the
is,
the country of
Mdwer
al
nahr (Transoxiana)
country
on
i
TuR,
it
was
'
after
>lj
<3^1
ci^v^l
ySi
_5
Jij^
Misr
( -,a)
JEgypt
and Sham
(^), Syria.
10
in
page 3.
J
>
^*
is
accented in the
MS.
thus
Jjol
Undulus.
So likewise
in the
8
in
**
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
historical
compositions,
(g^Q or Chronicle on the affairs, not only of every kingdom or province, but of every
district
Tarikh
"
and
city.
Next
Egypt
their talents in
and
after
first
((J Jol)
it is 12
'
and as
this
We
learn from
editor to
''
Burckhardt's Travels
ters divide
Arabia
into
two
others
Yemama ;
cities
is
of
But
this
name {Hejdz)
not
comprehending many
in
x.)
By
some
Stony
13
writers
;
Hejdz
is
identified
by
Arabia Deserta.
^K
says
M. D'Herbelot,
9
al nahr^^
(although before
have
dawn
of the
Moghul
^^
governat least,
^^
I,
am
*'
Tarikh-Rashidi,"
written by
Mulla Tanish
;
Bokhari,^^
nous I'appel-
in
laman.
^KjU
,
or
*'
that
which
is
beyond the
river''
(the
Jaihun,
<sr^
Amii ^]
549
or Oxus), Transoxiana.
See the
note on Iran, p. 7.
^^
^Us.
iaXJl>-
in the
year
154).
Jit^
iO^^
r^*^
)^ I'^o,shghary according to
p. 127), the chief
is
Sadik
Is-
place of the
(or
Atghur) country.
It
as a place in
its
inhabitants
ir'^
^ ij^.i^-
*-t^*'*2jU,
10
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Abdallah Khan,
But no
writer of
fallen
historical
Mdwera
al
under
my
inspection.
chronicle^*
composed before
this
government and
Gurka-
nian monarchs.'^^
^^
k:})^^
ci'br^^/-' *^;^^
Shahi "
c/^ ^^^
under
*^H-^
'^**
"
Sehifeh
the
must be
(although
different
title)
in his excellent
Catalogue of
as the
Tippoo SultAn's
1494,
Oriental Library,
No.
xxvii,
History of the
invaded
Transoxiana,
and
ever
Timour, have
The
prince,
whose
this
work, was
Abdallah
of
KhIn,
Akber, Emperor
was
24
al Bokhary."
Muselm^n
e:^!
tXc
dynasties.
^Si^jS
^T
or
^^U=^
is
So
GurkIn
of
i^^j^), which
name
Taimur
TImur.
11
re-
actions,
attention to
chronological
But
sets,
had
risen in India
Taimur
Gurkan,^''
many
^Jl
(^N>.Lo
"
the astronomers
formed."
quarters
This
of
title
may
also imply
**
the
world,"
;
the
horn or extremity
was surnamed
Saheb
Keran,
^"^
J^j:f
jy^ j^^
^^
l/^ ^/
To
<w-s-U3
cLyos^
The death
the
Muselman
or
name Timour,
^^Jj^
TiMUR,
Taimur, was
" lame"
or
*'
signifying
sonal
lane,
defect or infirmity
title
of Tanier^
19. note.>->
12
A CRITICAL ESSAY OX
In the time of his Majesty the Emperor Jelal
addIn
sidence
Muhammed Akber
is
Padshah,*" whose
re-
now
in Paradise, the
events which
and the
^^
*'
Jehanglr Nameh,"
^^
Padshah Nameh,"
were compiled
curiosity
in
the
Taimi6r,
was
and
was given
to
him,
parcequ'en efFet
Clavijo,
que
les
deux
petits doigts
de moins."
'*
TiMOUR
litaires
prefixed to
de
Instituts Politiqueset
Mi-
appelle
Timour,"
is
p. 34. in the
portrait,
collection of the
30
SI
^^
and the
Jehangir
Nameh,"
shall
be more
13
has appeared, and the notices of transactions are confined to the pages of
official records.
Now
reader;
the
titles
of
some extensive
shall
historical to the
be offered
among them
the
'^
must
first
mention com-
positions in
*'
Arabic language.
or
''
One
is
the
Tarlkh Keblr,"
IfiN
Mahis-
HOMMED
LU
or the
Muselman
religion) is professed,
down
to the
year
^^
joS r:
[i
below mentioned,
the
Jarir
Tarikh Ebn
(^^
j\:>
^}] g^li).
jjS*j1
^^
tJsrS-*
Of
this
Spe-
cimen Historiae
Tabarita
Arabum
Jaafar
"
(p. 383,
Oxon. 1650).
Jarir
al
" Al
Tabari
"
Abu
^
Mohammed Ebn
7^^^ ^^
iSj}^\
;^.
uy^ '^^^^^
cenica laudatus.
ditione
^jlj^Jo
ad annum
302L^l
^ f.)^^^
^ ^^ ^ ^
^
'^
^^
et certissima, inquit
Ebn Challecan.
14
of the
ill
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Hejrah 300.'*
But
is
this
admirable work,
it;
and
if
reasonable judgment
may
be
formed
it
two
portions,
is
3*
but
we have
Tabri
years.
35
down
to a period
later
by two
writers hereafter
quoted,
that
the original
Arabic text of
Tabri's Chronicle
has lately
felt
much
accomplished Orientalist,
examined
in the
Royal Library
the Arabic
Work, comprised
in five
volumes.
Yet
that the
whole should not exceed yoMr, would appear from a note of the
learned Erpenius, quoted in Sir William Ouseley's account of
in the
British
is
Museum
given in
:
A.
iv).
This account
ii.
vol.
p.
185, as follows
"
**
An
" Chronicle,' of
**
jy>.
Js,^^^
Ij^
J), surnamed
" from
**
Al
Tahart.
of the
Prophets from
15
mention a celebrated
**
Shaieb
(^^..^^Jk>i)
Mohammed.
Tabari,
:
**
**
was born
in
Per-
**
**
sians,
the
Pro-
phets,
and Kings
and as
** **
exist, this
fragment
may be
in
conhis
treasure.
The
learned Ockley,
"
**
Tabari
"
** **
Fortunately, however,
work
is
**
** **
*' **
death,
is
enriched with
the learned
and
From
Tabari's Chronicle
ElmakIn
lished
compiled his
;
"
by Erpenius
and
this
volume
MS.
Continet
**
" tempore
** *'
** ** **
**
Jacobo ad
tempora
pseudoprophetae
Arabum,
Muhammedis Abujoafaris,
800, et
in
annum
Christi
hie
tamen
liber
Arabicus
est,
**
in
also
says
Ockley
Intr.
&c.
16
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
''
xxxiii.)
**
destitute of Turkish,
at,
concerned
were
it
with
and so not
to
not understand
them.
is
;
They
great
Tabari, who
of their history
in
my
predecessor.
Dr. Luke, concerning him, who said he had never met with
him
in the East,
to
be despaired of
in
Arabic.
same.*'
We
W.
Ebn
hejira 352,
963,)
after
the
death
Tabri
and
**
de sorte que
le texte
Ara-
bique."
was
this passage, as
Fall of the
many
Ghebers, or Magi."
to
same Preface
Ebn Haukal,
17
his-
was styled
Rostock.
in
it
This inestimable
MS.
lines written
now belongs
to Sir
W.
is
described
in the
MSS. No.
269.
This Cata-
271,
in
3 vols.
and perfect
MS.
No.
274,
in
vols.
Sir William,
"
is
particularly
much
tables of the
titles
the
names and
of
were celebrated;
their
may
These tables
come down
^^
J] or family of
**
Buiah."
From a
fine old
Tabri,"
collated with
Dubeux, a very
is
engaged
in
preparing a trans-
37
1^]
.]
The
work
is
the
"
Tiirikh
given
by Pococke
p.
Kamel," (taken from Ebn KhalekIn,) in a note to his " Specimen Historiae
Oxon. 1650.
Arabum,"
370.
Ali
Ebnol Athir
^11 ^b '^^j.^^ ^JLouiJ) Abul Hasan Ali Ebn Abil Carm Mohammed Ebn
^.jj];c
^.^1
^j):J\
18
tory (of Asia)
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
down
hundred and
Muhammedan
countries,
such as
Maghreb
Andalus (Spain),
Misr (Egypt),
(Persia),
Sham
(Syria),
Turan (Turkomania),
*'
(India).
The
Tarikh
Kamel"
is
is
wa
al
Nehaiet,"^^ written
fills
by Ibn Kathir
Shami,^*^
which
notus nomine
frater
Al
Ebnol Athiri,
Christi
^;^.r?"
H60,)mortuus
(Ebnol Chalec).
Respecting
tribus fratribus
commune
630
auctori
libri
Al Kamel, Azzedino
MausulEc
a.
defuncto
(Christi
See
the
*'
Specimen Catalog!
Codicum
MSS.
Of the
19
little
below
Another
is
the
''
of Ibj^ Juzi,*^
Merat
al
Sabt
Ibn al Juzi
this
:
historical matter
has ever
fallen into
my
hands.
''
Then
follows the
And
41
next
we may remark
.
^^f^
Jdss.
tJ^oAaa
odd years/'
42
1300
43
.^
i|
Manuscripts' (vol.
p.
Ebn Alathir
Ben AlguIzi
(j^j-j^JI
,^ y^
ill
4*
*
(^ jys^l
\*ji}
iax*w
This author
is
mentioned by Casiri
ii.
in his
MS.
Library' (vol.
consists
p. 27).
The
<*
lumes,
in the year
20
nicle of
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Ibn Khaldun,*^ who, although
all
in this
work he mentions
more
of the
Muhammedan
sovereigns
who
reigned in
Maghreb
and Egypt.
work,
Of the same
description
we
find another
Makrizi, ^ which
almoluk."^9
is
entitled
*'
Al Seluk
fi
didel
And
Nafahh
^"^
next to that
al
we may
filling
place the
*'
Kitab
Tayib,"
t^^^^
*'
^^}
kX'
^ translation of
has been
History of the
Berbers"
^^i)JU
^P'
The
full
name of MakrIzi
is
given as
Ara-
bum,"
p.
**
Al Makrizius
Takioddin
vulgo
Al Makrizi
dictus
natus,
teste
annum H. 760.
In a
for
scil.
to
of works
Oriental
or
now
in the
the
Translation
by Abraham
" Salame, Esq. This Arabic work includes accounts of the con**
quest of
Egypt by
the Khalifahs
A. D. 640, and of
the cities,
"
rivers, ancient
21
entitled
''
Tarikh Andalus,"^^ or
the Chronicle of Spain, composed by Abu al Abbas Makri/^ and containing an account of the
various conquests
made
in that country
by those
who
Muham-
medanism).
it
likewise
records the memorable transactions of the sovereigns, the vazirs (or ministers),
furnishing,
besides,
various
anecdotes
the
learned
it
men
when
was first subjugated by the Muselmans, whilst Abd al malek Marwan^^ reigned, in the year
of the hejrah
,^^
until
when
all
Spain
fell
(J Jo
r:
ly
Respecting
the
pronunciation
of
this
11. p. 7.
^3
J. ^i^JdJI
fifth
J^ Abd al Malek,
Ommiah
the son of
Maris
wan, was
,
Khalifah of the
race.
;
54
but
it
well
known
Abdalmalek
began to reign
A. H. 65
(or of
Or
of Christ 1591.
^ CJJi ^\X^
22
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
any possessions
To
*'
this
account
poetry, and
as a
men
of erudition regard
altogether
Now, among
tensive
composed
al
Rauzet
This
Safa
"^^
seems entitled
is,
celebrated chronicle
prolix
;
in
some
parts,
minute and
after
It
in others, brief
his
'*
Rau-
reigns
who
and Turkomania).
Another Persian work of considerable extent
the
*'
is
Tarikh Alfl,"
^^
Works," p. 49) " The birth of Jesus (on whom be peace !) " happened at Naserah (x^U), and the first tribes that adopted
" the religious doctrine of " bitants of this village;
*'
(Nazarenes)
all
57 ^^
and,
by
degrees, this
to
**
who
Jesus."
Already noticed in p. 4.
iJl f?..l>
or the
" Chronicle
of a
Thousand Years/'
Muhammedan
era.
23
faith.
;
But
in this chronicle
for instance, of
by
Tarikh Alfl
this
;"
and
it
revisal or correction.
treating of general
are
in
this
defective,
will
be neces-
be a
full
partake
we
should
^^ ^Uwjtili'
The
victory obtained
by
the
Muselmans
at
Kd-
happened
in the
Kddesiah
is
described by
*'
Sadik Isfahani
a place
in the vicinity of
Kiifahr
Ara-
bian
Iroik
This decisive
24
examine the
tioned.
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Arabic
chronicles hereafter
men*
The
great chronicle or
*'
'*
Aasim
Kufi,"^^
and the
'*
Mustekesi,"^
61
chronicles
here
mentioned,
see
pp.
62
1317,
18.
Zahabi
This
writer,
" The
the
^^^\3
Meidan,"
(^J\SJ<^
al
and another
or
(his
principal
work)
L.)!]
"Tarikh
Zahabi"
"Tarikh
al
Islam"
ij
j^\
Si
This
ancient
Muselman
writer
(AaSIM
yi
in
liography, according to a
MS.
Mu-
seum ,KV=9'
_5
JjlL-JI Aysr*
^^
tVyS^ill
"Aasim and
this person is
Mu-
HAMMED BEN
and
MED Almastowfi."
Ouseley's
Collection)
But
name
the
author
Abu Muhammed
s
al Kufi
Jyjl Jc]
s^ A^sr*
Ac]
to
,^1
JyCll
^ Js^k
have
The
translation from
25
Among
Persian historians
we must
consult, re-
al
Ahbab,"^^ the
*'
Rauzet
the
'*
translation of
Mukessed
al
fi
Tarjumah
al
Mustekesi/'
^^
And
if
Beni Abbas
furnish
**
Ta-
rikh
Fatuhh
'*
Muste-
kesi,"
neither of
been made
**
in the
Although the
Book
by many
Aasim
of
Kufah
himself,
Sir
W.
Ouseley
a
is
See
letter
tomb of Daniel
at Susa,
in
Persia, published
vol.
ii.
p. 428.
^8
Of
in
pp. 5,
6,
&c.
^9
Already mentioned
in p. 24,
26
the Persian
'*
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Tarikh Alfi"
may
be consulted with
advantage.
we must
**
Rau-
more parDiale-
meh/^ the Selajekah,^^ the Samanian/^ Giiaznavian/^ and Khuarezm Shahian'^* monarchs,
"^^
iXj
L> i>
An
Arabic
whom the
Persians call
Dilemian,
or the
Dilemites,
is
as
some Euro-
Dtlem ( Jj j)
a province bordering
<)CA2^iL
SelIjekah,
the
Seljukians,
or
Selgiucides,
branches
that
J
of Iran, or Persia
of
Kirmdn
and of Rum.
of the
The Seljukians oi
Rum
began to reign
480, and ceased in 700 (or from the year of Christ 1087 to
1300).
^^
See D'Herbelot
in
Selgiukian.
-jUiULi SamaniIn.
in the
The
which began
and terminated
in
They
are
styled
European
^L)
Jx
or
Ghaznevides,
in
by D'lier-
belot,
(Ghaznaviah
who
fourteen princes,
27
whom
the
''
Those who
history
of the
Safeviah/^ or
last race
of the
Persian kings,
may
from the
''
Habib
al Siyar," before
mentioned, in
which
is
On
son
Shah Tahmasp,^'^ many anecdotes may be collected from the work entitled '' Ahassan al Tuarikh,"^^ composed by Hasan Beig Rumlu."^^
384 or 387
(of Christ
994
539 or 542
1144 or 1147).
^Ai^b[^\}iJ:>-
powerful
iSdtSuD
The Safevi
or Sefevi
dynasty,
styled
Sqfi
this
or
The kings of
till
race
Nadir ShAh.
^^
^ )W1
LV***^^
by
Sir
W. Ouseley
in the
28
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Likewise from the
**
Tarlkh Aalum
histories
Ara,^
which
contains,
besides
the
of
those
two
when
the imperial
But the
'*
much
elegance of style
it
is
however a curious
relates
the
Sefevi transactions
Shah Abbas.
author of a chronicle
Thani^*
more
SultAn Ri6mlu
and
his son
Shah IsmaIl
of the Uzbeks^
ShIh Tahmasp,
the princes of
RuMlEH,
A. H. 900
Jaghatai, khans
A most
known.
I have
^^j lLU
''
^^j>^
\)
^[c
g^li-
^'
V^l^
^^
29
atten-
much
month
or year.
If our intention be to
make
researches concern-
who
ruled in
we may
;
book enal
Al akud
al 'luliet
''
fi
Tarikh ad'dowlet
al
Beghiet
these
mustefid
fi
akh-
"
^^
two works
relate to
But the
likewise,
''
Kitab
al
mukaffi al Makrizi"^^
is
history of ili/>r
in
(or Egypt).
'*
Mustafa Efendi ^
which comprises a
his
Tarikh,"
Muselman
dynasties,
who
reigned in Egypt.
cities,
And on
^'^
^pjl^ll
^aijl L-jll$^
Makrisi
in p. 20.
^^
^^
ik^o*
or, perhaps,
the last
^9 iL^if^ <xCo
Mekkah
the
highly
honoured,
or
the
great.
^^^
<uyU
clUUJvxj
the venerable
or revered city.
"
30
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
have composed a multiplicity of
different writers
volumes.
Now,
who
de-
0th-
The
Othman
;
race have
but works
be noticed
**
the chronicle
or
entitled
Hesht
Behisht,"^^ composed
Lisi.^*
This book
have examined
it
contains a
Oth-
man
dynasty, beginning
with
Othman Beig
91
By
this
name
is
those
provinces which
;
now
Turkish empire
westward of Persia
extensive.
9^
it
much more
is
frequently pronounced
Osman.
^^ Ul^s/isjj
Oriental
is
MSS. (No.
The name
work on Turkish
by
BedlIsi.
dises.
9*
^^
Bedlisi.
immediately preceding.
31
Another work,
for infor;
I allude
Tarikh
" or history of
Mekkah,^^ written
by MuLLA KuTTUB ad' din Hanefi,^^ a chronicle which brings down the records of that dynasty to
nearly the year one thousand of the hejrah,^^ and
is
not
by any means of
country (India).
Likewise
Mustafa
0th man
family until
era,^^ in
the
''
^J^
^ U^
s
""
J^
'V^V.^
fj^}
''
g;^'
98
^^j^
jJl
Burckhardt as
**
The History of
is
interwoven, called
in
El Aalam
The
held high
el haraniy
Kottob
ed'
Mekka, and
to the year
in
Arabia "
Or
mentioned by Burckhardt
in the note
(A.
H.
^0^
101
page 29.
Or
of Christ 1591.
32
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
partly of a detailed narrative, and partly
manner
of an abridgment or summary.
Of
the
MoGHUL
sovereigns^
who have
reigned
Muhammedan
the
well of
Changizian
as of the
Gurkanian
or
Taimuis
amply recorded
in
quently among us
Thus the
history of
of his
Hulaku Khan^ in Persia, has been composed by Khuajeh Ella ad' din otta mulk Juini,^ (the brother of Khuajeh Shams ad' din Muhammed,^) in his chrodescendants, until the arrival of
nicle entitled the " Tarikh
Jehan Kushai."^
Next, as a sort of appendix or supplement to the " Jehan Kushai," I may here notice the
**
Tarikh Wessaf,"
"^
which copiously
details the
Js,=s^
c/^.^^
zi.[i
U^ ^^^
:
c^ti^'-V^
Kj^
from
7
,
j'to
by Abdullah ShirAzi,
as appears
the full
title
examined
.
jo^
tjjj^ i^ajuuai*
^-
jLs.
r:.l>
:^
'^^
33
of
that monarch's
in the
work named
'*
Jamia
ample accounts,
historical
and
Changiz Khan,
his descendants,
who
Kibchdk^^ and
Mdiver
al nahr,^"- I
any
distinct or
particular
work
their history,
however,
may be
The '^Tarikh Rashidi," composed by Mirza Haider Dughlat Gurkan,^^ furnishes nothing
more than a
brief
summary
or
compendious ac-
From
Sir
this
valuable
*'
MS. some
W.
Ouseley's
Travels," vol.
p. 170,
&c.
^^
LJ '^' ci^tJ
^
i
An
extensive region
northward of the
or
in
Caspian
Tatars.
Sea,
inhabited
The extraordinary
name
is
explained
p. 1.
Or Transoxiana.
This work, and
its
Irctn
and Turdn,
p. 6,
in p. 9.
34
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
^*
and
work
is
called
**
author
founded
the princes
who reigned in Mdwer al nahr ; namely, Abd Allah Khan Uzbek/^ But of those who ruled Iran and Turdn (or Persia and Turkomania), from the time when
Changiz ceased
to exercise imperial
sway
until
may be
''
the
*'
Sadein")
^
;
also
^*
J(^^ c;^"^
^^
Before mentioned,
in pp. 9, 10.
^'
.^1 iajU- r:
.li'
An
a copy which the editor has examined, in the year of the hejirah
The
author,
834 (1430)
and as he
in
of
is
entitled
at full
length in
(No. 359)
-ik^
^.^1
^^
^.isx^Jl a name
signifying the
"Rising
the
Venus), and
Abd al Rezak,
35
al
Rauzet
**
al
Safa," the
''
Habib
Siyar,"
and
in the
Tarikh Alfi."
Taimur,
it is
book
entitled
and
it is
fur-
such as the
al Safa,"
and the
**
Rauzet
and the
Habib
al Siyar,"
above mentioned.
The
history
also
of Tatmur's
renowned de"*
the
throne of Herdty^
*'
distinctly
in
al
the
Matlia As'sadein,"
and the
Rauzet
Habib
al
Siyar"
of Samarkand,
who
century ^jjuj^^^j!^;]]
*^
Jul)
f^
or the
**
Book
36
of
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
Sultan Said Abu Said MIrza,"* and
also
who now
reposes in
Baber Padshah/^
this,
I
Muhammedan
WakiAt
commen-
tator himself.
Sultan
own
**
we
is
find
commemorated the
in
now
heaven
but of
this
composition the
26
era.
27
Of
this curious
work an excellent
trans-
Essay.
jb ^QaLj
^^
c?^bli]
Jb^
Me-
moirs of
Humaiun," translated by Major Stewart, from the Persian of Jauher AftAbchi, and published by the Oriental Translation Committee. Major Stewart entitles the MS. work
from which he made his translation the Tezkerreh
or
el
Vakiat,
Aftdbchi
signifies the
person
who
of ablution.
37
too familiar
and undignified.
transactions
Respecting
however
reign,
Ncimeh,"
also
of the learned
*'
from the
Ikbal Nameh,"^^ a
posed by Sherif
Muatamed
But of
that
illustrious
in Paradise,
each of them recording particular facts and cumstances which the others do not relate.
cir-
Among
the largest and most esteemed of those chronicles that celebrate his glorious career, are the
'*
mentioned,
who
its
of
*'Tekmileh
Akber
Nameh f^'^
in the
'*
while the
Ikbal Na-
Sherif
Muatamed Khan,
'^
^Uv
A^
c-ij*^
'S'wiob^l
name
'^^lc:^,Uc^
may
^"^
<uli jS)
Aj^
fection of the
as
it
be styled, the
38
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
"
meh
already
mentioned,
commemorates
reign,
the
transactions of
fifty years.
Akbeu's whole
"
'^
which lasted
The
year
**
Tabkat Akberi
Mulla Abd al
*'
Kader Bedauni/^
Besides those chronicles, the
Tarikh Alfi,"
and the
*'
Tarikh
"
of
Ferishtah,^"
and
se-
38
j^]
L** 'ii'ixU
In an original
in
MS.
Catalogue, compiled
by an English gentleman
occurs "
work
Ahmed
of
HerIt
..
?&
s^
to
i^^^ /^^)
"
two volumes
the
first
from
SUBUCTAGI
XIG^)
MoEZ ad'din
MoEZ ad'dIn
jjJl
jx^)
:
to
Akbar
the second
1002
793
to
to
980
(or of Christ
1390
of
to
928(1340
for
;
to 1521);
;
Mdlwah
158 years;
;
of Jafor
vdnpur
97 years
of
Multdn
245 years
^^
and of Kashmir
^'^^^'^
80 years.
^jW
^^
An
;^"
translation
*^ ^sjJlS 'f.,j[i
excellent
of
this
valuable
work has
by
39
portions
that
victorious
emperor's
Now
reign
concerning the
affairs of his
majesty,
who
not
much
may be
*'
volume of Sherif
fore mentioned,
chronicle
entitled
Masir Jehanglri,"
*^
which
side)
of
Jang,^^
") re-
and
this
chronicle (the
**
sembles the
Nameh
'*
paucity of
minute
details.
Next may be
noticed the
Jehangfr Nameh,"
*^
vols.
8vo.
There
is
of
by
the
late
Colonel
Dow.
'^^
<JuL>
Emperor Ja-
HANGUEIR,
by
most
a Cata-
40
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
or history of Jehangir, in
which
this great
mo;
Ikbal
''
Masir
but
emperor's
own work,
On
Shah J eh an Padshah/^
is
a second Sahib
now
in heaven,)
''
we must
entitled
Abd al Hamid,
MED Wareth
Nameh")
details
is
;
the third
MuhamPadshah
it
and
this
work
(the
*'
of
considerable utility,
because
particular
fact
that
know
respecting the
great
the time
when he
first
<uU;l^
small duodecimo
j
\
volume,
beginning
jyi:
with
Ll^.t^^
]
J^
'^^.'^
*^^=^
^^
c^y: J^d
Ai^
^^ d^
^'J
^U jL
*^
'
^}^ \:^
41
thirtieth
Of
we
have an account
in the
work
called
" Aamel
Padshah Nameh."
that
It
''
must
however be acknowledged,
Saleh
" is
the
Aamel
the history of
the
moment
of his death.
On
by Sherif
Muatamed
propriety be
Mutekedmeh Padshah
Nameh."
^*
first
empefrom
al-
but
this
work only
differs in style
the
**
ready mentioned.
On
^*
"
Prelude or Introduction to
the
''
Padshah Nameh."
J^
^..^ji ^LXA^I
42
world,
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
now enjoys
his reign
that relates to
of which
have above
spoken
and whatever
himself
when he placed
ended,
is
with
ample
details in the
*'
posed by
MuHAMMED
have
Likewise
Muhammed
who composed
lumgiri,"^^
work complete
for
he omitted
to record several
Thus he has
them
some
for
managing the
affairs of
go-
vernment
others.
he
43
(now gone
to the
^^
cir-
cumstances relating
are mentioned, and
to those
two
princes,
some
altogether
unnoticed.
also
he
has
61
..(.-.
vf
i^i
Jlc sLi
If.
..I...
62
j$Li,
Jicl
Jvs^
^3
In the auto-biographi-
cal
" Memoirs of
we
many
favourites.
son of
thousand
of two thousand
Men-
who had
the
Emperor
says,
" I now
raised
him
of
my
father's court or
my
Lala Beg
'*
two thousand
But
the rank,
Nurjethe
han,
(or
among
The ShahzI-
BAH
Khoorum
44
A CRITICAL ESSAY OX
offices, or
appointments
several
and
dignities,
;
omitted
of
Ghaziad'din
Khan Bahadur
distinguished
On
cision
some very
trifling
occurrences
little
worthy
and by no means
preachers,
and similar
topics,
subjects of discussion
among
held
com-
panions.
On
not
in
high
estimation
to ap-
among
those learned
Besides
cles,
this, I
glorious
^
;
64
- ]-a
diately preceding.
66
^_j Jjit)
,J^
45
under
my
inspection.
One was written by a person named Abd al Hadi/^ who had obtained the title of Kamur
Khan/^ and certainly was an author possessing some talents and ingenuity. He says, on the
subject of his
own work,
**
have composed
this
Sahib Keran
lately
Taimur
to
that great
have divided
two volumes
one containing
first
Sahib Keran
(Emir Taimur)
Shah Jehan,
" the other
Sahib Keran
volume of my chronicle
in heaven, the
now
mighty Aalumgir."
I
have not
portion
first
Abd al
Hadi's work
nor have
^"
cJ'^^'^^T^
.
(V^^ ^^^
by
the great
ChangIz Khan
from
this
Jaghawas
in
tAi
Khan, and
to
prince the
name
of Jaghatdi
given
those
countries.
See the
'*
Bibliot.
Orient."
Giagathai.
46
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON
my
The
now be mentioned
it
was
composed
in
the
province of Dekkan,'^^
transactions
himself had
my
hands.
AalumgIr by order
of
now resident in Paradise. This writer was Mirza Muhammed,^^ generally called Neamet Khan Haji,'^ an eminent personage, who obtained the title of Danishmand
Khan;^'^ and he has recorded the events of that
monarch's reign as
far as
the third
year.
Al-
is
to
And
73
in
whom
the
(^ or, as the
name
is
sometimes written,
47
MuHAMMED Farrakh
plished writer,
Sir,"^^
one MiR
Muhammed Ahasan,^^ who was surnamed Maani Khan,^^ undertook a poetical acand partly executed
it
;
Maani Khan)
bliss
the great
Muhammed Shah
a person
able and
In
hejirah
one
this excel-
8*
48
A CRITICAL ESSAY
OIV
commencement
of this
or lost.
before the
Gurkanian
princes (or
those of Taimur*s
race)
have
chro-
Ferishtah
is
regarded as
Next
beri,"^'^
to that
we may
little
place the
'*
Tabkat Akits
because
who had
and as
all
some
and comprehensive
manner
who
^^
:
Among
we must
notice
86
87
in p. 38.
in
^^\
'
^['q
t\o
p. 38.
88
Beng&lah ^(^b.
'^
6X.
^^
^'
<^ CJ^
49
Tarikh" of
history of
containing a
of Dekkan,^*
Mulkiah
the
'*
rulers of
Ah-
MEDNAGAR ^
;
likcwisc
Tarikh Kuttub-
who governed
9^
jC;Jaj
J.lt)
ho
'f.j^
Major Stewart
entitles the
i^
^;^)?
kings
"
Muhammedan
Beider
viz.
of Kulberga, in the
Dekhan
to
AhmedabM
is
from
A. D. 1346
to 1595.
The author
No. xxx.
95
MSS.
compiled
p.
by an English gentleman in India (and already quoted, 38), this work (the " Burhan Masir") is thus mentioned:
j^J
^jlalijb
^p
JU>
*
4i;i=*-y
^^
or
a " Chronicle
Bahmeny
of
History of Dekhan
')
to the reign
BorhIn Nizam Shah, the third Sultan By Ali bin Yeziz Ullah, Tubba Tuba."
of
Ahmednagur,
^^
JbUii
t^^U;
[i*
Ouseley's
described as
50
A CllITICAL ESSAY ON
work
entitled
**
Merat
Sekanderi,"^^^ which
kings. ^
is
is
ealled
Zaffer al
Waleh be muzafFer wa
aleh."^
We
have, besides,
many
historical compositions
who
in past ages
al
have
Masir,"* and
al
''
Khazain
Fa-
;"
and
MS.
lines,
Tarikh Sulatin,"
or
**
Chronicle of Kings,"
Shah dynasty.
This
is
In another Catalogue of
editor
Eastern
described
i
MSS., compiled
a
in
Bengal, the
**
has
seen
volume
fZjlJ).
entitled
o*"
Towarikh
Kottub
Shahi "
jal^
{,
Ia5
"
Telingana."
is
This
Taimur, and
divided into
,cwoU
rhegire
CLjIiLxL
;
**
Ce
precieux
de
51
like-
''Muhamed Muhammedi;"^
*'
wise the
alek
(or
*'
Tagh-
by
the celebrated
this
Emir Khusrau
of Dehli.^^
*'
On
subject
Shahi,"^^
we have
the
*'
also the
Tarikh
Mubarek
besides
Tabkat
MahmM
^^
'^
many
p. 379),
who
describes
it
as an abridgment of Universal
His-
an
admirable
work.
work
that
is
described
as
'>^
in
Catalogue
MSS.,
(
the
Ixo),
JaJ
^li
lUi
.wjjo-
^Aj&j
when
vice
**
few
to see a just
*'
whose
virtues he has
commemorated
"
*'
History of
Az Addeen
Tughlic Shah.'
The poet
A.D. 1325.
*'
His tomb
is still
respected at Dhely."
"
"
13
Jtti'
^j ifo
jd^^i
'f.j^
^^
<^y=^ cljIaAs
jbU
\:lj^^
52
tion,
which however
;
appear
in this country
to time,
fall
any
mentioned
by
But
if
the chief
men
on
laudable desire to
know
the history of
all
events
of
commencement
one
Indian sovereigns.
^l;!
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Page
allusion
12.
is
of Clavigo,
to
which an
here made,
title
" Historia
y
le
del gran
Tamerlan, y
relacion de la
embaxada
del
que
Ruy
Gonzalez de Clavijo
hizo per
mandado
muy
Sir
a portrait of
Taimur
by excellent
in the
artists
of Samarkand,
is,
north.
There
however, a
of
TiMOUR, engraved
after
by M. Langl^s
et Militaires de
"
Instituts Politiques
Tamerlan," &c.
From
finger
barian Conqueror,)
we
learn that
Taimur
of each hand
portrait indicate
or mutilation.
54
His
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
nails are tinged with
according to
Sir
William Ouseley's
an
Travels," vol.
iii.
p. 565);
and the
drawing represents
extraordinary
left
:
by which
is
supported his
this substitute is
and
is
Taimur, and
behind
in
such a manner as
like
which
in
some
It
made of
silk
or
observed in Hyrcania,
P.
14.
Here
it
the editor
text
made
Tabri's Arabic
at
now
preserved in the
Royal Library
Berlin
there
From a very
learn that the
in
we
Tabri's
original
work
Arabic axe
Professor
know
and
that
he
is
lumes.
*'
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
** '*
**
55
quarum, quantum
scio,
noniiisi
quinque
in
Bib-
liothecis Occidentalibus
adhuc
repertae sunt,
;
tertia, quinta,
Lugduni
(See
Batavorum
in
p. iv. of the
An-
volume) at Gryphswald,
1831, quarto.)
It
has been
MSS.
That
volume
is
pre-
du
Roi
in
but
thjs,
however
MS.
tertia
MSS.
Bibl.
Reg.
Galliae, vol.
p. 161.)
if,
been
a volu-
minous author,
Mox
etiam
in
libros
componendos tantum
laboris impendit, ut
fere
per qua-
folia scribendo
implevisse dicatur."
i.)
quoted, p.
"
{^3S
L-jliii'),
or
" Book
of Victories,"
it
J^
Ac] ^1),
may be remarked,
chiefly
56
known through
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
the
medium
The
a copy
Persia,
and subsequently
at
Constantinople.
Aasim al
the
KiJFi,
*'
whom
who composed
in the
year 117
of the
as one
Muhammedan
among
was eminent
:
Koran
'*
Ase-
Arabico-Hispan. Escurialensis,"
vol.
I.
vol. ii.,
Index referring to
p.
504.)
That
this
Kufah) might,
in early youth,
p.
428)
details,
By
so powerful a
this
those passages of
which
illustrate
and
interesting anecdotes,
in
These
will, perhaps,
P. 26.
history of the
Ghaznevide
to
the
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
P.
in
*'
57
30.
Rum,
Roum,)
Ebn al Vardi,
in his
Kheridat
this
Hungary, &c.,
it
as far as Constantinople
to
Romaniah and
in his
Another geographer,
" Massahat
al
Ardh," or
*'
restricts
Rum
to a part of
**
Asia Minor.
Hamdallah KazvIni,
vii.)
in his
Nuzahat
al
is
Kulub," (chap,
bounded,
which
Rum
gia, SiSf
Misr
or Egypt,
Sham
or
the
Sea of
Rum
or Mediterranean
f}j
^
Sir
(*
r^j
'^^^""^^ i^jA*-
(or
Kushd).
Of
**
this title
the
into
by
in the
Catalogue
*'
The
history of the
life
of
Nadir Shah,
as Sir
king of Persia,
written
it.
by
Mirza Mahadi,"
might be more
This
(or
title
literally translated
rikh
Chronicle)
MIrza Mahadi." The full name of this Mirza Muhammed Mahadi Khan MAzin^[=^
DERANi ^l^^jLo
^"^
Of
^*==^
bj^
P.
36.
Wdkiat Bdheri.
this valuable
work a highly
in-
68
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
has lately appeared under the following
teresting translation
title
:
tan
by himself
late
in the Jaghatai
partly
by the
together with a
Map
of the countries
its
Company's
Preface to
(London, 1826.
Quarto.)
In the
1) the
**
this excellent
described as extending
from
the Ulugh
Tagh mountains on
Hindu Kush
Yarkend on
Pp. 38
pages,
the east."
48.
first
The work
of
"
was
Dow,
Company's service."
A new edition
work ap-
But a most
Briggs,
made by Lieutenant-Colonel
**
was
The History
till
Mahomedan Power
don, 4 vols, octavo.)
in
India
the year
1612; translated
Ferishta." (Lon-
Mahomed Kasim
P.
51.
Hesht
Behisht.
It
has
been
already
observed
works
same
is
titles.
Khusrau
three
of Dehli
Thus we
(^\j^XS)
works com-
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
posed
59
by
different authors
(Ahmed al Ghafari, Ali Kemal Pasha) mentioned in W. Ouseley's Oriental MSS. Nos. 462,
and
is
entitled
" Negdristdn,
by JuIni
^.^
FIRST INDEX.
TITLES OF BOOKS
MENTIONED IN THE " CRITICAL ESSAY," AND IN THE NOTES WITH WHICH IT IS ILLUSTRATED.
Admel
page 41
12, 36,
Salehli,
Ferishtah 38,48,58
Akber Ndmeh,
Abdallah
37
Aalumgir Naraeh 42
Fatuhh of A^sim
al
Kufi
24
Nameh
fi
10
Hafiz Abr6 (Tarikh) 34
Al Seluk
20
didel al Moliik
Habib
22, 23, 25, 26
al
2,
Alf i (Tdrlkh)
Ahassan
4, 26,
35
Tuarikh 27
fi
Tarlkh
Ndmeh
37, 39, 40
al res61ut
29
beled
Al aalam hy aalam
Allah
el
Jamia Rashidi 33
Jehan Kushai 32
J aaferi (Tarikh) 13
haram 31
Jehan glr
mustafid
fi
Ndmeh
12,
39
akhbar
Juini 32, 59
medinah Zabid 29
Beddiet
wa
al
Nehaiet 18
Burhan Mdsir 49
Baberi (Waki^t) 36
Kamel (Tarikh)
Khitdt 20
16, 18, 26
Kitab
al
Beddiet
wa
al
Ne-
Ebn
Khalkan's'* HistoriaSa-
haiet
18
al
racenica" 13
Kitab Nafahh
Tayib 20
62
Kitab
al
FIRST INDEX.
mukaffi al Makrizi
Rashidi 9, 33
29
Khaldun, Ibn (Tarikh) 20
Sehifeh Shahi 9, 10, 34
Khazain
al
Fatuhh 50
Sur
al
buldan 3
fi
Seluk
didel al
moluk 20
Fatuhh 50, 55
al
Tdrikh Rashidi 9, 33
Tabri 13, 24
Kheridat
Matlia
al
Ajaieb 57
13,
Merat
al
Zeman 19
24
of Zahabi 19, 24
Jaaferi
al
Merat Sekanderi 50
Muntezm 19
Mustekesi 24
13
Islam 24
16, 18,
N^-
Kamel
26
Hafiz Abrii 34
Andalus 21, 22
Aksi
fi
Tarju-
mah
Jehan Kushai
32,
57
al
Mustekesi 25
Meid^n 24
Masir Adlumgiri 42, 44
Mukaffi 29
38
Ibn Kethir Naderi 57
18,
24
Massahat
Fatuhh AasimKufi 24
Nafahh
Tayib 20
Naderi (Tarikh) 57
Nasri (Tabkat) 50
Hesht Behisht 30
Ferishtah 38, 48, 58
Nuzahat
al
Kulfib 57
Mubarek Shahi 51
Firuz Shahi 51
Nagaristan 58
Padshah
Rauzet
35
Nameh
Mulla Bideri 49
12, 40, 41
Jauher Aftdbchi
36
al
Bedauni 38, 49
Mulla
Abd
al
Kader
Rauzet
al
Ahbab 25
49
FIRST INDEX.
Tarikh ^Kuttub Shahi 49
63
Tabkat
Mahmdd
Nasri 50
Shahi 51
Ibn Khaldun 20
Bahmeny 49
Taghalek
Nameh
51
Wakia
Baberi 36, 57
Wessaf (Tarikh) 32
Zaffer
Nameh
37
Nameh
35, 57
Masir 50
el
Zaffer al
Waleh be
muzafFer
Tezkerreh
Vakiat 36
wa
aleh 50
Bahadur Shahi 51
SECOND INDEX.
NAMES OF AUTHORS, EMINENT PERSONAGES,
KINGS, DYNASTIES,
"
&c.
MENTIONED IN THE CRITICAL ESSAY," AND IN THE NOTES WITH WHICH IT IS ILLUSTRATED.
Abbds (Beni) page Abbas (Shah) 28
5, 6,
25
Abd al Hamid 40 Abd al Shams 5 Abd ar'rahman ben Moaviah 5 Abd al Hadi 45 Abd al Kader Bediiiini 38,49
Assiuti 5
39
Abdullah Khan Uzbek 34
Aalumgir 42, 44, 45, 46
Almakin
(or
Elmakin) 15
20, 29
Al Makrizi
Azzedin 18
Akber
Abd
al
Hamld
Lahuri 40, 41
Akhlas Khan 47
Almob^rek 18
AlTabari 13
Abu
Jaafer
Muhammed Ebn
13
Abd Abd
Abru
al al
Rezak 34 Malek 2J
ben
Jarir al Tabari
(Hafiz) 34
Abul Fazl 37
Al
i
Ahmed
A^sim
7
Muhammed
Ali
Buiah 17, 18
ebn
Athir
Mastowfi 24
al
Athlr 17, 18
Ali
al
Kdfi 24, 55
Aktedi 29
Ali ben Yeziz UUah, Tubba
Ahmed ben A^sim al Kiifi 24 Ahmed al Ghafari 59 Abu Muhammed Ahmed ben
Aasim
al
Az
SECOND INDEX.
Andalisi 30
65
Athir ben
al
Ebn
19,
ol
Jiuzi
Abdullah Shirazi 32
26
Aasim
24, 55, 56
Edris Andalisi 30
Edris Bedlisi 30
Ella ad'din
otta
mulk Juini
Baber Padshah 36
Burhan Nizam Shah 49
Barid Shahi dynasty 49
32
Feridun 43
Bahmaniah dynasty 49
Bideri (Mulla) 49
Farrakh Sir 47
Ferishtah 38, 40, 58
Beni Abbas
5, 6,
25
Beni Ommiah
Bedauni 49
Bedlisi 30
5, 21,
25
Gurkan
Ghairet
11, 12
Khan 39
or
Buiah 17, 18
Changiz Khan
Ghaznavian
34
Ghazi 31
Ghaznevide
dynasty 26, 56
9, 32, 33,
Dughlat 9
Daud
Bideri 49
Habib Allah 3
Hamdallah Kazvini 57
Haider Dughlat
9,
Danishmand Khan 46
Dhul'karnein 11
33
Dialemeh 26
Dilemian (or Dilemites) 26
Haukal 16
Haji Khalifah,
vii.
Introd.
vi,
24
Elmakin 15
51, 58
Ibn Aasim
al Jazeri
al
Ebn Ebn
ol
al
Athir ben
18
Ibn Athir 17
Ibn
al
Vardi 57
Athir ben
al
Juzi 19, 26
66
Ibn Kathir Shami 18 Ibn Juzi 19
SECOND INDEX.
Khaldun (Ibn) 20 Kemal P^shl 59
Ibn Khaldun 20
Ibn Kathir 24
Ibn
al
Vardi
57.
Ilderim Baiazid 31
IsmMl (Shah) 27
Jaghatai Sovereigns 45
ad'din
Ali
Muhammed Ak-
ber Padshah 12
Jauher Aftabchi 36
Juini (Ottamulk) 32
Mahadi 57
Mir Khavend Shah 4
Mirza
Juini 59
Muhammed Neamut
Khan Haji 46
Kashf
al
zunun, Inti\
vi, 24.
Kazim 42
Khondemir
2,
Mirza
4
Mamun 6 Muhammed
46
37, 39
47
Mulla
Abd
Hamid 40
Khuarezm Sh^hian
26
dynasty
Khoorum 43
Kuttub ad'din Hanefi 31
Kuttub ad'din Mekki 31
MuUaTanish Bokhari 9,10,34 Muhammed Ben Tanish al Bokhary 10 Muhammed Saleh Kanbu 41
Muhammed
13
Muhammed Kazim
Makri 21
42
otta
mulk
Kanbu 41
Khuajeh Shams ad'din Mu-
hammed 32
SECOND INDEX.
Mullit Edris Andalisi 30
67
43
Shaibani 18
ix.
Muhammed
Khan 42
Saki
Mustaad
Sassanian dynasty 23
Selajekah(Seljukians) 26
Samanian dynasty 26
Safevi, or Sefevy 27,
28
Sofy, or
Muhammed Kasim
58
Nadir Shah 27
Ferishtah
Nur
Jehan 43
Nazarenes 22
Behadur Shah
Muatemed Khan
37,
40
ad'din
Nizam
Ahmed 38
25
Shams
ad'din
Muhammed 32
Ommiah
5, 21,
Subuctagi 38
Tabri, or Tabari
24, 54
10
Tezkerreh
al
Rumlu
said
26, 27
Vaki^t 36, 57
36
54, 55
Tamerlane 11
Taimurian dynasty 32
Takioddin
Sahib Keran 11
Shaieb 15
Ahmed Ebn
Ali
20
G8
Tahmasp (Sh^h)
Tiiher
SECOND INDEX,
27, 28
Wahid
(Taher) 28
Wahid 28
W^reth 40
Zahabi 19, 24
Zu'Ifikiir
Tughlick Shah 51
Tubba Tub^ 49
Taifur Bustami 59
ret-Jang 44
Uzbek
10, 28, 32
Zeya Berni 51
Zehereddin Baber 58
Vardi (Ibn
al)
57
THIRD INDEX.
&c.
ILLUSTRATED.
Andalusia, page 8
Belad
7, 8,
al
Sudan, or Country
Andalus
18,
(or
Undulus)
20
7, 8,
Bengalah 38, 48
18, et
Arab (Arabia)
passim
Arabia Petraea 8
Deserta 8
Felix 8
Cobi
(or
Kobi) 58
Chaldea 23
Candia 3
Armen (Armenia) 57
Africa 3, 29, &c.
Dasht-i-Kibchak 33
Ahmedabad 49 Ahmednagar 49
Aniran 7
Aighur (or Oighur) 9
Damascus 19
Dehli 38, 39, 51
Dilem 26
Dekkan
Egypt
49
&c.
Amu
(River) 7, 9
7, 8, 18, 20, 29,
Balkh 53
Barbary 3
Euphrates 6
Bahr-i-Rum 57
Belad
al
Gurjistan (Georgia)
57
Maghreb
Gujerat 38, 50
70
Golconda 50
Gibraltar 3
THIRD INDEX,
Mausul 18
M^wer
al
Gulf of Persia 6
Hej^z,
Maghreb
Medinah
20
Arabia 8
8,
29
Herat 35, 38
Mediterranean Sea 57
Mekkah
et
8, 29,
31
10,
Multan 38
Misr (Egypt) 7,8,18,20,29,
57
Hyrcania 54
Naserah 22
laman
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Nejed
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Iran (Persia) 6, 7, 18, 33, 34,
et
Oighur
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Oxus
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Isfahan 56
Indus (River) 6
Persian Gulf 6
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Romaniah 57
Romiliah 57
Javanpur 38
Jaghatai 28, 45, 58
Rum
26, 30, 57
Rumieh 28
Samarkand 53
Sis 57
Kashghar
9, 34,
58
Kobi
(desert)
58
Kirman 26
Khurasan 35
Scythia 6
Sham
(Syria) 7, 8, 20, 57
5, 7, 18, 20,
Spain 3,
21
Susa 25
Sind 38, 48. 50
Shiraz 56
Malwah 38
Tabaristan 13, 14
THIRD INDEX.
Tayf 8
Telingana 50
71
Tehamah 8
Tehran 56
Tatar Country (Tartary) 6
Undulus (Andalus)
20 34
7, 8, 18,
Turan
Turkomania
Terfan 58
Turkistan 9
34
Yemen 8, 29 Yemama 8
6, 9,
Transoxiana
Tillung 50
10, 20,
33
Yarkend 58
Zabid 29
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