614 A KRAZEM-BEG, 
= 1 
dot) 49 ja 9 ë ,5 Us x ak y») a yj9) EL | command these difficult passages (derbends) 
and will not allow these tribes to make in- 
ab» Lis Jil 35 alé (52 Jo ol 329 5e |Gursions into these quarters. Agree to these 
proposals and do not demand from us any 
tribute or impost.» — The case was brought 
Eau 99 ss aus) as > UD CE before Omar, and was consented to by His 
ai. ___|Majesty, who said : «it is preferable to let them 
QU gd y] el JE Co pès > Ub o%|command those difficult passages than to take 
> » tribute from them: since the Musulmans will 
y HË 5 bi] Go dust bel 5 él 
be in safety from their (the Khazars) mis- 
Ale) >b ol; sn * Aus 99 «H> bols y) 
US p ju al) Qsl s ce) dus 99 UD y Jo ane 5 ss 
chief » — This usage has continued since 
| that time down to this day as a sunnet. 
ai OÙ gi (ols.) olsis Le DER LÉ Ga in the city of Sipenjdb (or Spidieb) ° there 
is neither tribute nor impost; so it is in (other) 
» LC il 6S ll CEUNPENELS TE es towns in Méverdun-nehr: the inhabitants with 
their own arms and ammunition, every year, make 
a GE Ja ab il ps ab els 35 | 
aléès | vyar upon the Tartars and repulse the irrup- 
ie PE AE D AU Le Lo 6 Le nd AR à tions of the Turks against the Musulmans. — 
Û Lai (aPplE de ue in re When the stipulation was made on these 
OM Goal vie de ESS) EL, y Jul grounds, they fortified the derbend of lan 
and that of Khazar ‘* and in every derbend 
no» ps buy io 555 si 4 appointed a chief and submitted it to 
hi . Omar, having heard this, rejoiced; 
QD duui y jee Cyés jbl vel 5 EL ins ei à : J 
for to maintain an army in that country was 
LS 0 bre nË) 5e GA 5LE rS 3) o&] 
8 Sunnet, among other significations, means 4» old usage coming down from the times of the Khalifs or 
other saints &c. its observance is considered meritorious. 
9 In our MS. Senhàb; in Mesalik, Sendjab and Sihab. Katib-Tchelebi reads it Sphidjäb and Sbidjab ; 
the author of Burhân reads it Spenjéb and Senjàb. The various readings arise from the susceptibility of the 
middle characters of the word to as many different changes as their dots admit. — It is the ancient name 
of a town, or rather a district in Mâverâun-nehr, which by Djendbi is considered to be the same with Siram. 
Tchelebi says that it is Situated in 43°30 N. Lat. and 400° E. Long, from the Canary Islands. — The author 
of Mesalik also asserts, that Sinjab is free from all kinds of tribute, 
10 4dd. N. In the Persian translation of 4l- Bal’ami we read more minutely: «Surâgkeh dispatched every one of 
these generals to one of those derbends (defiles) and to the towns which were on the mountains of Derbend. 
Be sent Bekir, the son of Abdullah to a town lying on this Derbend (probably Babul-Abwab) and Hazifeh the 
son of Asad he sent to those mountains and towns which were opposite to the derbendi- Allun (i. e. Babullan 
or the actual Darial; see Extract VII in this Appendix; note 82). Thns he fortified all the derbends (defles) 
of the Khazars and of the Alans and the Musulmans became safe from the danger of the enemies.» (See 
Dr. Dorn’s Nachrichten über die Chasaren page 58). — 
