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NOTES ON THE SECOND DISCOURSE, XIII, XI Vo 113
struck at Bukhara, Khujand, Farghana, Uzkand, Saghaniyan, Sarharqand,
Ush and Ilaq, i.e. in Jll the chief cities of Transoxiana and Turkastan 1
.
He* reigned for twenty years (A.H. 383-403 - A.D. 993-1013), overthrew ,
the authority of the Samartids in Transoxiana, and quarrelled with '
Sultan Mahmud over the partition of their territories, which were finally
between them. \
XIII. Ahmad ibn 'Abdu'llah al-Khujistani.
(Text, p. 26 ; Persian notes, pp. 123-4.)
Khujistan is a district dependent on Badghis and situated in the
mountains of Herat. This Ahmad was originally an Amir in the service
of the Tahirids, but on their cqllapse he joined the Saffarids, and finally
exercised authority over the greater part of Khurasan. Finally he fought
and defeated the Saffarid 'Amr ibn Layth at Nishapur, struck money in
his own name, and was contemplating the conquest of 'Iraq, when he
was murdered by some of his own servants after exercising more or less
independent authority for eight years (A.H. 260-8 ; J^.D. 874-82).
*
In the Tdrikh-i-Guzida? Saman, the ancestor of the Samanid Kings,
is represented as the person thus affected by these verses; but, apart
from the improbability that Persian verse existed in his time, at any rate
in the form in which it is known to us, Hanzala, the author of these verses,
flourished under the Tahirid dynasty, of which the founder was con-
temporary with Asad the son of Saman.
,XIV. Poets and writers mentioned in Anecdote XII.
(Text, pp. 27-8; Persian notes, pp. 125-56.)
Sallami. Abii 'Ali as-Sallami al-Bayhaqi of Nishapur died in
300/912-3. According to ath-Tha'alibi' ( Yattma, iv, 29) he was attached
as, secretary to Abii Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Muhtaj and
his son Abii 'All Ahmad. He wrote many books, of which the mJst
famous is the " history " referred to in the text, viz. the History of the
Governors of Khurasan, which was used by Ibn Khallikan, especially in
his notice of Ya'qiib ibn Layth the Saffarid. A short notice of Sallami
occdrs in Ibn Func?uq's History of Bayhaq, composed in 563/1167-8 in
Persian, of which a good MS. (Or. 3587) exists in the British Museum.*
The text of this article is given in the original by Mirza Muhammad on
p. 125 of the Persian notes.
SharifM-Mujallidi of Gurgan. This poet is mentioned in
'Awfi's Lubdb (vol. i,- pp. 13-14), where he is called Abii Sharif Ahmad
ibn 'Ali, and where this sjme verse is cited.
Rud,aki (or -gi). Oneof the oldest andmost authentic noticesof this
.ancient and celebrated Persian poet occurs in the- Ansdb of Sam'ani 3
,
who says that he derived his pen-name (takhallus] from his native place
a t
1 See Sir Henry Howorth's paper referred to in the last paragraph.
2 Ed. Jules Gantin (Paris, 1903), pp. 20-21; Gibb Memorial facsimile ed. (xiv, i),
P- 370"
3 The text, given on pp. 125-6 of the Persian notes, occurs
"
E. J. W. Gibb Memorial edition (vol. xx, published
in 1912).
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