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Addenda To The Hudud Al-' Ālam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

V. Minoesky
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WHEN my translation of the Hudud Al-' Ālam was published in 1937, it was found impossible to swell the book1 by further remarks on the language of the Persian original, and I promised (p. xii) to deal with this problem at a later date. On the other hand, the quarter of a century which has elapsed since I began my work on the Hudud has brought a considerable number of new facts bearing on the interpretation of the data which I was trying to explain. In various ways my work has been continued, both in the articles which can be considered as a by-product of the Hudud2 and in contributions on fresh but cognate texts.3 The object of my present article is to bring the book up to date by integrating my own research and by completing it with references to the studies of other scholars.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1955 , pp. 250 - 270
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1955

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page 250 note 1 Hudud Al-' Ālam, a Persian geography of 372/982, translated and explained by V. Minorsky, Gibb Memorial Series, N.S., xi, 1937, 20 + 554 pp.

page 250 note 2 Such as ‘ Une nouvelle source persane sur les Hongrois au Xe siècle ’, in Nouvelle Revue de Hongrie, April, 1937, pp. 305–312; ‘ A Persian Geographer of A.D. 982 on the Orography of Central Asia ’, in GJ, September, 1937, pp. 259–264.

page 250 note 3 Such as ‘ Marvazi on China, the Turks, and India ’, Arabic text (circa A.D. 1120) with an English translation and commentary. J. G. Forlong Fund, xxn, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1942, 170 + 53 pp.; ‘ Tamim ibn Bahr's journey to the Uyghurs ’, BSOAS, 1948, XII/2, pp. 275–305; ‘ Gardizi on India ’, BSOAS, 1948, XII/3, pp. 625–640; my series of ‘ Caucasica ’ (I-IV) in BSOAS, supplemented by Studies in Caucasian History (I), 1953, and finally my recent research on Abu Dulaf Mis'ar ibn Muhalhil's travels in Iran (to appear in Cairo in 1955, ).

page 253 note 1 The meaning seems to be: ‘ and as regards the two mountains they are mentioned ’

page 253 note 2 A similar construction is known in Kurdish.

page 254 note 1 On the lines of M. T. Bahar's Sa-shinasi.

page 258 note 1 The corrections derived from these sources are acknowledged with the initials I.U., A.E., and J.T. The criticisms formulated in A. Z. V. Togan's article ' Die Völkerschaften des Chazarenreiches im neunten Jahrhundert‘, published during the war in Kőrösi Csoma Archivum, 1940, in/1, pp. 40–75, seem to be based mostly on misunderstandings.

page 260 note 1 Marvazi, p. 33, also uses the same report but at his time the Khazars' power had been destroyed and he omits the part concerning the kings.

page 260 note 2 cf. p. 333 on the division of power in Ghur (§ 23, 48).

page 260 note 3 I quote D. M. Dunlop's translation, ‘ The History of the Jewish Khazars ’, 1954, 104.

page 261 note 1 1 presume that the original source was Jayhani and that the latter's work was in Arabic.

page 261 note 2 The exact reference is to Berger, H., Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Erdkunde der Griechen, Leipzig, 1903, p. 418. The Macedonian writers gave the name of Caucasus to the (theoretical) range continuing the Taurus of Asia Minor throughout Asia. See Eratosthenes in Arrian's Anabasis, v, 3, 1, and Strabo, xv, C689. The range formed the wall () between the northern and the southern zones of the Earth.Google Scholar

page 264 note 1 ‘ Von den Karluk zu den Karachaniden’, ZDMG, Band 101, 1951, 271. In this article Pritsak, O. I. has discussed several of the names appearing in the Hudud, Gardizi, Marvazi, etc. See also his other article, ‘Die Karachaniden’, in Der Islam, Band 31/1, 1953, 18–68.Google Scholar

page 265 note 1 It remains to be seen whether this name appearing in the neighbourhood of the Hephthalite nest in Khorasan (Marquart, Wehrōt, 40–5, and recently R. Girshman, Les Chionites-Hephthalites, 1948, p. 98) has any further links with the Hephthalite Gurjara in India.

page 270 note 1 Different from badh-rag, see Vocabulary.