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An 11th Century Spanish Account of the Northern Nations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The object of the present note is to draw attention to another source— qualiscunque est—on the Ṣaqālibah, Bulgars, etc., which has not hitherto been investigated. A full discussion of the literary and historical relations of the text is not proposed, but it seems desirable to signalize its existence.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1953 , pp. 159 - 161
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1953
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page 159 note 3 See most recently Frye, Richard N., ‘Notes to Islamic sources on the Slavs and the Rūs’Google Scholar (Muslim World, 01, 1950)Google Scholar. I had the benefit of discussing the text with Professor Minorsky, who kindly drew my attention to an account similar to Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr's in the spurious Akhbār az-Zamān, sometimes ascribed to Mas ‘ūdī but no doubt by a later writer (ed. aṣ-Ṣāwī, ‘Abdallah, Cairo 1357/1938, pp. 68 ff.Google Scholar). This account has been partially translated by Dr. Frye, loc. cit. There is also a French translation of the Akhbār az-Zamān, with minor differences from the Cairo text, by de Vaux, Carra, L'Abrégé des Merveittes, Paris, 1898Google Scholar. It is evident that the account in Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr is more original than the other, which omits authorities, abbreviates and takes other liberties with the text, introduces ‘modern’ information, etc.
page 160 note 1 Brockelmann, , GAL I, 367Google Scholar; Boigues, Pons, Historiadores y GeÓgrafos arábigo-españoles, pp. 147 ff.Google Scholar
page 160 note 2 Supplementary Handlist of Muhammadan MSS. in Cambridge, No. 1568, 2 = Christ's College MS. S 7 75 (not S 7 5 as listed).
page 161 note 1 Historiadores etc., p. 45Google Scholar (no. 3 of Pons Boigues, i.e. a very early writer). According to Pons Boigues he was a client of Ramlah, daughter of the Caliph ‘Uthmān. This of course is impossible, from the dates. al-Faraḍī, Ibn, ed. Codera, II, 46, no. 1556Google Scholar, has: Yaḥyā b. Ibrahīm b. Muzain maulā Ramlah bint ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān, i.e. Muzain, an ancestor, was client of Ramlah.