Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 545 
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in various places, the greater numbor of the Gkara-Gkaitägkians sought their safety in 
obedience and conversion to Isläm, whilst the rest remained in their unbelief (and pe- 
rished): There: was under the command of His Highness, one of his relations named 
Amir-Hemzeh;"* (this) Amir-Hemzeh His Highness appointed chief over the Gkara-Gkai- 
tagkians, and from him are dcscended the Usmies (so are called the Princes) of Gkara- 
Gkaitàägk of the present day. 
The-greater part of the people of Tabasarân were, in the beginning, Jews and infi- 
dels. At first they also would not submit; but after his Highness having slaughtered 
and taken captive a considerable number of them, the rest were converted to the Mus- 
sulman religion ‘*. — There was in the army of His Highness a good and pious man 
named Muhammed Ma’soom'*; him he appointed governor over the inhabitants of Taba- 
sarân, and gave to him two Gkadhies, in order that they might teach them the laws 
of Islam; and he issued strict orders, that from henceforth in every event of great im- 
portance, all (the tribes of) Tabasaran should follow the instructions of Ma’soom and the 
two Gkadhies ‘*; and that Ma’soom, the Gkadhies, Amir-Hemzeh, and all the tribes of 
Daghistân, from Georgia to Deshti-gkiptchägk, should be under submission to Shehbâäl 
the governor of Gkûmûgk. — From this Shehbäl are descended the Shemkhéls of 
the present day ‘. 
After finishing the affairs of these regions, His Highness turned himself towards the 
tribes of Taw and Awar. Them also he converted, with the edge of the sword, to the 
Mussulman religion; erected mosques for them and appointed Gkadhies, to whose care 
. he submitted them. — 
