Derbend-nämeh or the History of Derbend. 515. 
Remark 14. page 507. 
This, is a manifest mistake, Î suppose it to arise from a similar circumstance which occurred 
10 a different personage who must be meant here, and whom we shall endeavour to point out, 
Setting aside the anachronisms which characterïize every part of our versions of Derbend-nâmeb, 
to which we have had occasion Lo refer more than once (Part IT, rem. 2. and Part II. rem. 2.) 
and, which excuse our author in his errors, a mere impartial investigation imto the history of 
the time may throw some light upon the subject and serve to explain the error of our MS. — 
We have remarked above (Part [IT. rem. 1), that according to some historical informations 
which we read in Teberi, Benâkiti, Mir-khond and others, there must have been several ex- 
peditions to Derbend from the time of Velid, down to the reign of Æésham his brother. The 
expedition of Muslimeh just referred to in our lext, was undertaken at the close of Velid's 
reign,ï, e. in the year 94 of the Hijret;. another expedition, perhaps the continuation of the 
same, sént under the command of Aütemi- Rebii (see. in the appendix the quotation from Bend- 
kiti), belongs to the reign of Omar the son of Æbdul-axiz, À third expedition, sent under the 
command of Djerrah, of which we find the detaïls in the fourth and following part of our 
Derbend-nâmeh, belongs to the. reign of Fezid the son of Abdul-melik, and of which we 
find also in Teberi a description that we shall have occasion to lay before the reader in our 
appendix to this work. It follows then that the Khalif in Syria who, before preparing an ex- 
pedition to Derbend, was informed of the irruption made by the Khazarian tribes into Ader- 
bijan ac, was Fezid, who, afler the death of Omar the son of Æbdul-aziz was established on 
the throne-of the Khalifate in the month of Æedjeb of the year 101. — The circumstances from 
which the misunderstandiog or error in our MS: arises is, in my opinion, the following: Fezid 
the son of Mahleb, the then viceroy of Zrdk, at the commencement of the reign of Soliman, 
baving by.some artifice, obtained from, the Khalif the dominion of Khordsan, had extended 
his arms to Gurgan otherwise Djurjan and Zeberistän, (where no Muhammedan force had be- 
fore been established), and become very powerful aud dangerous. 
After Soliman’s death, his successor Omar the son of Abdul-aziz, perceiving ILE danger, sei- 
zed Yezid and under, some pretext threw. him into prison, where rs was kept during the whole 
of his reign; but some days before Omars death, and some time previous to the reign of his 
successor Jezid, the son of Æbdul-melik, the imprisoned Yezid escaped and saved himself by 
flight. Being a man of the greatest valour, and through many other qualities, having acquired 
ble influence over the spirits of the age, Fezid the son of Mahleb did not encounter 
much difficulty in reinstating himself in a new authority, which however could not last long: 
there did not elapse much time ere, through the aïd of his own brothers Mafzal Muhammed, 
Djebel, Abdul- melik, Mervän and others, he gathered a numerous army and encamped on 
the banks of the Euphrates; but fortune having ceased to aïd his brilliant military enterpri- 
zes, be could no longër meet with any success; he was met by Muslimeh, the brave and 
experienced brother of the Khalif, at Anbär ©, and was totally defeated. — This circumstance» 
called in history the destruction of the pau. i of Mahleb, was considered as the means of the 
reestablishmeni of peace in the Theocratical Empire and of the safety of Fezid, the son of Ab- 
€ € An ancient town on the Eastern banks of the Euphrates. The Author of Nuzhet says that it was founded 
by Zuhrâsb, and that it went hy this name in the time of Nabuchadnezzar for his removing the prison of the 
captives (Ulaul Sn) from Jerusalem 10 this town: Ambar, means a storehouse; a prison &c. 
