Derbend-nämeh or the History of Derbend. 473 
for having conquered (or, as Muhammed says in a tradition i, travelled to) the East and the 
West? Have we not-reason to think, that this, and another allegory used by the Prophet, who 
calls the king of Javan, the he-goat with one horn (ch. VIIL. v. 5.21.), caused the Jews to con- 
found the epithet horned: with the two-horned? 
Thus, the confusion suggested by the two arguments of the author of the Ugkianüs, may be at- 
tributed merely to the partiality of 4s'ad and to the Arabian Poet Ghess, who imputed to 
their own national hero some of the high deeds of the other. — Moreover, our conjecture may 
be maintained by a modification which we find in some histories, that the great hero of Macedonia 
is designated by the title of QUI Je) 1,5 dül-gkernain the second, in order to distinguish 
him from Sa’b, called the Frrst dul - gkernain of the Æemyars CS moi) ni Dr) 2. — 
But as to the favourable expressions of the Koran that lead most commentators to ascribe the 
prophetic dignity to the dul-gkernain, and which cause many writers to deny Alexander the 
great 10 be such, — they arise from lwo circumstances: from the ignorance of Muhammed , who 
knew almost nothmg about the hero but his name that had become so famous amongst the 
Jews and heathens, by his exploits and wonderful deeds; and from the favourable opinion 
which the Jews had formed of that prince grounded on the Prophecy of Daniel. 
Remark 8. page 459. line 22. 
a. The author means N this, one of the walls of Derbend, which, according to some, 
bears the name of LS H Léo The lesser Alexandrian wall. The traditions concerning 
the wall of Alexander are as much confounded as those about the dül-gkernain himself; on 
this subject we refer our readers to two separate chapters, quoted in the appendix to this work, 
entitled, The description of the greater and lesser walls of Iskander ; also ‘to, D’Herbelots ar- 
ticle Jagiouge and. Khazar ; to Bayer’s opusc., p. 9%. 
According to the description given by our author, as we find in our version and in that 
of St. Petersburg, the supposed wall of Alexander extended from the Caspian to the Black Sea. 
But the length of the longest wall of Derbend, at the present day, is not certain: thé southern 
wall rises from the depths of the sea and ïts ruins penetrate into the mountains, as far as the 
gates of Alan or Darial. — Kätib- Tchelebi says, that the wall of Derbend is 10,500 cubits in 
length (or something more than 3 English miles), and contains 70 bulwarks. Such was the state of the 
walls at the time of this eminent author, (see Li üle, printed in Constantinople in the year 1145 
of the Hijret p. #4, also read Part V. remark 2. of this work.) 
b. In our version nothing is said of Gabriel ac. as we read it in Klaproth’s translations. In 
Dr. Dorn’s version we find the following: Que os) d Jp Ke] es all és oli >L 55 
Sn Galles Du en p dl CHUEI Cul aude J£je of a (af) coul (il) 
Je += sx) D yb Ds ps gs (SD) af sl sl slE sb re Jb55 02 by RE 
Lune (re) gilee Vie Sos ol oles dl (20055) dons soupe ol (sun 
ê It is said in the tradition L5 5) «S üb i. e. she travelled to both horns of the world», meaning 
the East and the West. See AN Anne published in Boulac in 1255 of the Hidjret. P. 4po. 
