454 A: K\4 ZE M: BEG,- 
This historical document, in so far as 1 am able to judge, must be the introduc- 
tion of. the author to a separate history of Daghistan: He seems to have begun his work 
with an: account of the propagation of Islam in Daghistan, by the efforts of religious 
emigrants from the: families of Abbds and Amir -Hemzeh — a ‘tradition extremely current 
to this day among the ’inhabitants of the country. After giving a deseription of the pro- 
gress of the princes of these families &c., he gives us some short hints concerning 
the fall and extinction of their races, with an exhortation to all true Musulmans to 
revere all such whose claims to belong to those families, might prove just and authentic. 
He thereupon commences his history with the progress of Islam at the time of the 
first Khalifs, and introduces a short and faithful sketch of Teberi**, by doing which he 
probably intended to proceed to the description of the expedition 6f the Arabs into 
Aderbijan and Daghistan ?°. — This interesting work might be very useful to those who 
wish to. make researches into the history and antiquities of Daghistan, and we shall use 
our best efforts to procure either the work itself or some exact ‘information about, it, 
through. our. correspondents in Derbend °°. 
SR — 
$ 7. 
The system chosen throughout this work for expressing the 
pronunciation of the proper names &ce. 
Common consonants are pronounced in the usual manner. — Gk expresses the Ara- 
bic $. Kh — the letter & Gh — he letter &. d —” the letter >, which we have, how- 
ever, on many oëcasions, expressed by a simple z. — T'h expresses the two letters p— 
when they come together, as in esë Far h- Ali. Dz — tr, L,  Zh, the Persian 5. — 
Dj, the letter », which in some cases we have also expressed by a simple j. The £ and 
23 Compare the last words of the author concerning the limits of Aderbijan, with the recital of Teberi 
inserted at the end of Remark 14 to Part L. of our work. 
2% Our opinion that this fragment is part of a separate history of Daghistan, may be supported by the 
words of the author himself, who, referring to the extinction of the family of Hemzeh, says: «The poste- 
sity of Hemzeh, the Arabian, shared the fate which we have mentioned in its propér place, under the 
events of 718 of the Hidjret » — 
#0 Hitherto we have not succeeded in our efforts. Hadji-Mulla-Tagki, to whose kindness I was obliged for 
the quotation referred to, died soon after, and my correspondents in Derbend could not find amoug his few 
books the desired MS. The last information I received: about this from Derbend, intimnatés that the MS. be- 
longed to the library of 4bbäs-Gkäli-Agka Pakikhanoff and that it was for a time in Hadji-Mulla-Tagkis 
bands; but in the catalogue of this library presented some five years ago to the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
0f St. Petersburg by Mr. Berezin, 1 could not find out the name of any historical work on Duaghistän. P. Ad. 
