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nuit fut venue, plusieurs personnages considérables s'échappèrent, avec leurs serviteurs, dans 
la fortresse de Kieïvân qui était située entre /ndji et Balkh (l'ancien Endery, sur le Koï-sou). 
Le lendemain, les Arabes forcèrent aussi Narin-kalah. Les habitans d'Indji furent con- 
vertis à l'islam et furent faits musulmans. Ceux qui ne voulurent pas embrasser la foi 
furent passés au fil de l'épée. Dans cette occasion, Aghouki-Châghin fut fait prisonnier. 
Cela arriva l'an 11# de l’hégire (732 de J. C.), le dimanche du mois de Ra’bi-ul-evvel. 
Après cette conquête les guerriers de l'islam retournèrent dans leur pays. (Nouveau Jour- 
nal Asiatique Tome IL. p. #53 — 458.) 
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REMARKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 
TO 
PART THE FOURTH. 
Remark 1. page 517. 
This part of the Derbend-nâmed contains the account of the expedition of Djerrdh, the 
son of Abdul-lah, against the Khazars, of his victory, and of his return with spoils and plunder. 
Comparing thé narration of our author. which is almost unvaried in all the versions I pos- 
sess, with the account given on this subject by Teberi, we find, that the author of the Der- 
bend-nâmeh has mentioned, in superfluous detail, only the first expedition of Djerrâäh, which 
began in 103 of the Hijret, or 722 A.D., and continued till the year 105, i. e. till the time 
of Yezid's death, but häs not made any mention at all of that of the second war, which was 
renewed.. in. consequence :of the order of Æishäm, the süccessor of Fezid, and in which 
Djerréh was killed: perbaps he avoided the subject because the war was an unfortunate 
onë, in which the Musulmans were wholly defeated and their leader lost his life. 
However’ the epoch° to which the MSS.-of St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris so distinctly 
attribute the end of the expedition undertaken by Djerräh, (the year 114 of the Hijret) proves, 
on the contrary, that the author of the Derbend-nâmeh did not take upon himself the trouble 
of entéring inlo-any chronelogical arrangement of events, or of placing the true facts, of which 
he gives mere hints, im systematical order, and that, he confused all he knew about the sub- 
jee ‘exaggerated some parts, omitted others and confounded ‘the names of individuals. 
Teberi gives us a pretty, good account of al, though with some geographical mistakes 
LT “insteid of being elucidated , are stilL. more _confused by Mir- khond, (see al) à do y 
T'AHIL under: the title lus el er His) 1 Ï shall. heré: make a very, short extract from 
