Derbend-némeh or the History of Derbend. 575 
CEBTITE) url ol el ws JS (> Ji) (cs 52 NS Sols aS aJfo V1.) 
aile al Lol Dis LS & alu Le El de Lil oles sul Xl prhe 
Sue ol Al es huilel eur 66e goss 56 des sus 
desk ef plat Le pol sabil éb ap ET gel és pu 
a Narrators say, that when Mervän passed to the Khalifate, he appointed Nesri-Seiydr viceroy 
of Khorasan. — But in Armenia and Aderbijan the Khawaridÿs * lifted up their heads, mani- 
fested their creeds and united themselves with the Khawaridÿs living in Ærdebilb, —  Zeid 
the son of Æilal, who was the chief of the Khawaridjs in the district of Bilghän®, being in- 
formed of this, led and united (to them) his followers the Khawaridjs, so that a great army 
was formed. Mervan being informed of this, gave an army to Æbdu-l-melik the son of Mus- 
Jimeh, and sent him to encounter the Khawaridjs. ‘T'he two armies met at a place between 
Berda’ aud Naz (Niaz?) The army of the Khawariïdjs was victorious: Abdu-l-melik was killed, and 
his brother Æhagh was chosen Beg in his place. The war with the Khawaridjs continued long, 
and they grew daily more powerful » &c. 
Mervân'’s ill success at home and the continual disorders which -arose from the contention 
of two great powers, — of which the one must have triumphed and established, on the ruins 
of the other, the basis of a more powerful empire, — could not prevent those petty but fre- 
quent revolts which exhausted the patience of the inhabitants of many parts of the Muhamme- 
dan world. But at last the establishment of the power of Beni- Abbas, by degrees, put an end 
to these calamities, which had however continued from 126 till the year 132 And it is this 
interyal to which our MS. refers, and which was imdeed the epoch of Saffäh's establishment on 
the throne of the Khalifate after the death of Mervân. 
NB. The narrative in our MS. is, in the very beginning, much more exact and more satisfactory 
than in the MS. of St. Petersburg and in Klaproth’s translation, both of which are, as it 
were, extracts from ours. The following is the beginning of the MS. of St. Petersburg, which 
we here insert for the sake of some interesting additions which it contains OU? ane) U° us?» 
ei ol Gh jsonèeuxs ile (e oJl ie fale) Que Co dsl ds gl ol 
SL, p}l gboLE Us Ge dl slt sgss vhesles but opens (+) Dot fl 
bol dis By 5ks es L, « And when the dominion, having ceased in the dynasty of 
4h Ji g> means (in the plural) the rebels against the professed religion and authority. Ancientlÿ the Kha- 
waridjs formed a numerous sect; here the author means the Sheites, or followers of Ali én general. 
b Among the posterity of these afterwards appeared the famous Sheikh Safi. 
€ Now a village, at the distance of 8 farsakhs from the little town of kr, in Aderbijan. The author of 
Tezkiretu-sh-shwarâ says, that Heldki Khan having besieged it a long time could not take it; at last he 
was obliged to have recourse to art to beat down the walls of the fortress, and to take possession of it; that 
since this time Bilghan is become a ruin. (See there the Biography of Mudjirud-deni-Bilghäni). 
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