Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 579 
SEM Br 5 E sis +,3L3 Hs s\towns.. (Here, we must suppose, were used the 
Ve . Sn “ < U bricks taken and brought by the Mussulmans.) 
(y. ob) ba ml aéss IAA &Gd9>| First they built Déghrini, secondly Sifnan, (or 
! L Sigknan) and a third strong fortress was built 
«sl ou el 58 02 0,2 pile Que 3291 in the valley, where Hâshim was encamped with 
ir b k his army against the enemy.# After this they built 
caethe poil bb aals pe Sc Ul us d})) Muta'i and Kamakh. He ordered that three hun- 
T ilies # Id remove from Tabasarün 
: : | SK A dred families * should re 
v! bel 53e els sb ef * Ji to Muta’i (!) and he appointed his own brother 
; 22h 3 he es ef æelle cyslto govern over Tabasarân. Then he built (or 
pe à ui cl AS à P La by F her repaired) Dervagk, then Hemiri (rather 
re Us gobile Gilsoke Dust Luls|Humeidi). Then he built Kkeilu-t-türub (other- 
F AL. wise Kheilu=t-tughräb) and Kheilu -l-Kibria”. — 
LS) Js (v. ab) DA Je (PS Me») Having finished these towns he settled the people 
- T | : 4. lof Hams in Humeiïdi (another reading Hamiri); 
] 5 | [ : | L, (9) 
ges Je LS? 0.2 Hg SJ that of Damasc he setiled in Dervagk. — Der- 
Gls Le) Je), LS? 95 (v. 03 (LS yes) 0 HS es vask was a large town. — In Yersi he settled 
# In Klaproth’s translation we read: «et la troisième dans la vallée (Derré) où Hachem avait campé. 
C'était de cette vallée que les infidèles partaient constamment pour faire des irruptions dans l'Irak et dans 
l'Adzerbaïdjän.» In Dr. Dorn’s version in this place I suspect an omission, perhaps, of a whole line; therefore 
the set of words: bb del Ke SH) » de Gil 5k o> 0 > rie uses I would not read other- 
wise but thus: bb aals ee 02 p» Ül 595 abl ul 5K 02 0 y> ib yes) which agrees with 
Klaproth’s translation excepting only the addition of the whole sentence that we find in it. It is also re- 
markable that the passage in Dr. Dorn’s version gives to the valley mentioned here the name of Gkasb 
or Gkasab; but Klaproth’s translation does not name at all the valley and makes «Kasab» with ano- 
thér ; » Rouhab» two separate names for places which were taken by Hashim from the enemy. 
k In Klaproth’s translation we read 3000 familles, which I think is a mistake either in the Berlin MS. or 
in- the Extrait, — Besides we must notice here that « Methauïeh» or properly Muta’a, from which, according 
to the assertion of Klaproth’s translation, a great number of families were transported to a certain valley, 
belonged, likewise according to the account given in the same translation, to the number of towns newly 
built by Yezid’s, order. Following therefore the indication of Dr. Dorn’s version, which is in this point 
more correct and logical we suspect a great mistake in this place of thé Berlin version, which to our great 
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astonishment escaped the learned Klaproth’s notice. 
Ë In Klaproth’s translation we read nr) ds and «af J. The word HER were it written 
; ! la 
otherwise, and perhaps more correctly JE (a shadow a refuge), would lead to think that the copier has 
mistaken it for Je. The copier might more easily fall into the same mistake if the word were wrilten 
J5 i. e. by joining the letter 3 to the «s of de thus: Ja. At any rate I prefer Zeïl or Zil to Aheïil of 
Dr. Dorn’s version, and think that the name is identic with that which we have noticed in the part IV. 
Rem. 13. — ep) or ep AIR and LAN] of Dr. Dorn’s version must be 43) and tr) as it 
is in the Berlin MS. — 
