Saturday, December 29, 2018

Azerbaijan, from Hamadan to Bab al-Abwab (Muhammad Rafi, [1312-13 or 1318-19] 1851)


Azerbaijan, from Hamadan to Bab al-Abwab




Imam Muhammed, the son of Djerir Atteberâni (At-Teberi) in the description of the conquests during the reign of Omar, says that the most successful of the Khalifs in conquest was certainly Omar the son of Khattâb: he persecuted the infidels; overthrew (their) hosts; established the Dîvan, and laid tributes on different kingdoms. His troops passed beyond the river Djaihoon in the east; on the north they reached Aderbijan, Babul-Abwab and the land of Nitdjeh, which is contiguous to the wall of Yadjudj and Madjudj; on the south they reached Hind, Sind, Bahrain, Ummán and Mekreman (Mekran?); and on the west they arrived at the boundaries of Constantinople; ad all nations were in obedience to him…… He had one army in Syria, and another in Aderbijan: this country extends from Hamadan to Babul-Abwab in length…..123

123 See Part I. Rem. 14. — Here ends the quotation from the history of Mulla Djeli; if the reader wishes to know our opinion of its merits, we refer him to our preface.



Extract from a quotation from the work of Mulla Muhammed Rafi’ surnamed Abul-Fat’h Dziaüddin // Derbend-Nâmeh, or The History of Derbend; Translated from a select Turkish version and published with the texts and with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, antiquities, &c. &c. Occurring throughout the work, by Mirza A. Kazem-Beg. ― St. Petersburg: Printed for the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1851, p. 223.

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