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sians, — whom the Turks and the generality of Sünnies regard as heretics, — and their 
fall below the power of the Ottoman monarchy &c. — Chap. II. treats on some 
wonders of The mountain of victory. We have made our extract from the IIL section **. 
V. À quotation from the work of Mulla Muhammed Raft', surnamed Dzidüd-din 
(Extract VIIL). — This is a very interesting piece which I have received lately, (i. e. 
5 er Er the sr ME from Derbend *. — Its exordium is as follows: 
opee gas 1 ol 5) É L. Le Ubu Dee seul ol des, Lit 
SL D as ce Gas cel csyiall csplell ad) los pal Hebls les oi Sul 
i. e. «Ï transcribed these words from an old and mutilated paper, copied from the com- 
position of Mulla Muhammed Raft, entitled 4bul-fat’h surnamed Dzidüud-din. His proper 
name was Muhammed, but among the Persians he is known by the name of Mulla Jeli 
Ar-Rafi'. He was the son of the most profoundly learned doctor .of his age — the 
philosopher of the days of 4bdur-Rahim of Shirwân — Alhasan, the descendant of 
Ali by the lineage of Saft, and judge of Gkümougk at the time when it was ruined 
by the hands of the Turks » ?? 
25 This little work is characterized by bigotry and prejudice. The descriptions of the Antiquities of Da- 
ghistan F3 of the greater wall of Iscander &c. are borrowed mostly (sometimes almost word for word) from the 
nls*] 04 > of Ibnul-Vardi, We have extracted from it only those parts which suited our. purpose. 
Anôther complete history of the first expedition of the Ottomans to Georgia and Aderbijan &c. is known to 
us by a similar title Nüsret-nâmeh, i, e. « The book of victory :n it was composed by Ali, the secretary to 
Ser- Askar-Mustafa- Pasha, during the expedition of this general in 4577 — 78 to Georgia and Shirwän. 
26 My late friend in Derbend, Æadji- Mulla- Tagki, one of the corresponding members of the Univer- 
sity of Kasan, whom I had requested to make inquiries concerning the existence of any source of information 
relating to Daghistan &c., was so kind as to copy this quotation out of a separate paper he found in an 
old Arabic MS. written -in Daghistan. It is to be regretted however, that he does not make any mention of the 
MS. itself, nor of the means by which this interesting article might have found its way into it. 
5 
?7 The last phrase 3 Jos d) 55 &y*> might, most properly, be translated: « When he (i.e. the judge 
of Gkümougk) caused that town to be destroyed by the hands of the Turks». We have no information con- 
cerning the partiulars of the expedition of the Turks, or Ottomans, to Daghistan, we only know, that du- 
ring the expedition of Ferhad-Pasha against the Persians in 1582 — 83, Osman-Pasha penetrated into Da- 
ghistan in order to humble the pride of the mountaineers: it may be that the judge of Gkûmougk, as a man 
of great influence, acted in favour of Osman-Pasha and, by contributing to his speedy success in that country, 
was regarded as the cause of the ruin of the town. 
The author to whom this historical work on Daghistan is attributed, is not known to me. If he was the 
son of the Gkadzi of Gkûmougk, who was famous at the time when that town was taken by the Ottomans, he 
must have lived at the very close of the Xth and in the beginning of the XI centuries. In the chronological 
tables JA pr à of Katib-Tchelebi we find the name of a learned man lp) me Mir - Abul - fat'h, 
who £ in ie Aie not this be, the same author, who, by genealogy a descendant of Ali by the lineage 
of Safi, added the title of Mir to his name, according to the general custom? 
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