Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 
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643 
proceeded to:the climate of Bulkher and to 
the country of the Khazars, and subdued 
those dominions: he passed the winter in 
those quarters and returned in the spring. 57€ 
Hishäm displaced Mercén and sent in his place 
Sa'id the son of 4mr-Al-Harshi, otherwise 
Al-djersi;*® the latter arrived in Babul-abwab 
and continued. to make. war there for reli-. 
gion in every direction. But it happened that 
Sa’id 16$t his sight, therefore Hisham recalled 
him and sent (again) Mercan in his room. As 
{soon as the infidels of Khkud (Khazars?) were 
informed of the departure of Su'id they re- 
gained their posts. Mervan’s army went for- 
ward against them; they subdued all the pla- 
ces where they put their feet. He conquered 
Armenia, passed towards Babul-abwab , and 
back to their towns. There came information of this to Mervan who gathered together the people and more 
than 40,000 men were put under arms. They went to the 
67€ We find ‘an omission here also, — Add, N. 
land of Belendjer, and thence to the land ofthe Khazars. » 
Compare our text with the Persian quotation of Dr 
Dorn (ibid, p. 94); it is said there (it is the continuation of the passage iuserted just ahove): Ul you > ep 
de Ds ob I eue ts 0e AE QUES" Of GE Les) 
(sus 5 DJ y ms) lee G > 2 5 Laye a > p 238 cp oil Ms HUE, 2e JL 
à > SJ: j2e LS oh EU JE Cr pts 24 Lo CS Ug> Ca est p>ooil SJ «“(Here, is &. 
in the land of the Khazars) he made slaughtér and 
(Derbend?). It was winter. This battle they called the 
carried away (their) horses and returned to the city 
battle of mud, i.e, dirty engagement: it was called 50, 
because offrequent rains. It: was during this expédition that Mervan ordered to cut off the tails of the horses 
où account of the abundance of mud which clung to their tails — When the spring arrived AHishum the son 
of Abdul-Melik displaced Mervân  &c. — NB. In 1840 wlien [ finished my Derbend-rnameh IÎ could have 
no recourse ‘to thé Persian translation of Teberi. 
Thercforé we could not point out distinctly Katib- 
Tchelebi’s error (see Part V. Remark 4 note d) who relers the battle of the mud to 110. By this place 
of Teberi L am happy to see that my calculation has been just and that the end of Mervan’s expedition, ta 
which: the battle 6f the rmud'is ascribed} must have been at the close of 113, when followed the second ex- 
peditioa of Said in 144. Compare Dr. Dorn”’s Nachrichten über die Chasaren &c. pages 94 and 198. 
58 In our MS, we have us PS... À] Je It must be clope or del of theother MSS, — 
The : author means here the same Sa’ad whaiwas before the viceroy of Aderbijan. 
from Teberi.) 
(see above Extract V, 
