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(PART: V.) 
Description of the expedition of Muslimeh 
to 
berbend and fbaghistan. 
In the year of the Prophet 115, His Higbness,, Muslimeh the son of Abdul-melik, 
raised the banners of an expedition and departed with twenty thousand warriors for Der- 
bend and Daghistan. He proceeded on his journey, one stage after another, until he reached 
Derbend. There he rebuilt all the dilapidated parts of the walls and bastions. In the ,ci- 
tadel there was an edifice badly covered ‘; he destroyed it and built in its place an ar- 
senal and store houses for provision and naphtha: he also re-fortified the citadel *.. He 
then collected the revenues of all. the countries of Daghistän, and filled with them the 
above mentioned storehouses, in order to distribute them in time of need to the inhabi- 
tants of Derbend and its garrison. 
Moreover, he converted the greater number of the inhabitants of Derbend to the re- 
ligion of Islam; establishing them in seven streets; having built for each division a mosque. 
Every one of these mosques he called by the name of that race of people (which formed 
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