Derbend-nämeh or the History .of Derbend. 917 
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“(PART IV.) 
Descripuon of the expedition 
of 
Djerrah to Babul-abwab Derbend :. 
a 
%1{n the year one hundred and three, (Yezid the son of) Abdul-melik the son of Mervän, ap- 
pointed Abdullahi-Bähili to the defence of the Roman frontiers, and sent Djerrah, at the head 
of six thousand men, to'aid the troops in Derbend ?. Djerrah proceedéd on his journéy, one 
stage after another, until he ‘arrived'at last'at Shirwän. The son of the Chinese Khâgkän”, 
being informed of thé approach °of the Musulmän troops, moved his army t6'GKayeh: 
kend# Djerrah having (passed Shirwân, arrived’ in Mushcour; land häving gathered toge- 
ther’ all the troops (defending) the fortrésses there, continded ‘his route’ till- he came to 
the’banks” of the Rüûbäs. He there met with the  chiefs' of Tabasarân and! Ghara-Gkaï- 
» 19h °, who were not'ÿet converted to Islam: To these he said: «I come from the re- 
Mém. des sav. étrang. T. VI. 66 
