Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
1 Lit. Hist, i, 13. From the same book (p. 11)Google Scholar is taken what is said by Mr. Wilson about the “surviving monuments from the time of the Samanides”; he does not mention the very valuable geographical work Hudūdu'l-'Alem, written in 372 (982–3) and discovered in Bokhārā by the late &. Tumanski in 1892; see Tumanski's paper in the Russian Zapiski, x, 121 sq.Google Scholar The work is mentioned several times by Marquart, J. in his Osteuropäische und ostasiatische Streifzüge (Lpz. 1903)Google Scholar und Ostasiatische Dialektstudien (Berl. 1914).Google Scholar
2 Lubāb, i, 21.Google Scholar
1 Ibid., i, 79 sq.
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3 Ibid., translation, p. 19: “Samarkand est une ruine. Comme il a renversé tous ses (?) ornements! Tu n'est pas meilleure que Schasch; tu n'èchappes pas toujours.”
4 Tabarl, iii, 1388, 8.Google Scholar