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Al-Djaihnl's lost Kitb al-Maslik val-Mamlik: is it to be found at Mashhad?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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A B Abdallh Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Djaihn, the famous tutor, and later vazr, of the Smnid amr, Nasr ibn Ahmad, is one of the most interesting figures in Arabic literature and history. From the scanty information which is to be found in Ibn al-Athr. Yqt, and Mrkhwnd, we can judge that he was an excellent statesman and a good general, whose political and strategic abilities directed the affairs of the Smnids at one of the most critical periods in their history. Nor can it be doubted, from the information supplied by Ibn Hauqal, al-Muqaddas, al-Masd, and the Fihrist, that al-Djaihn was a man of wide learning and a good writer, with an intelligence far above the average of Oriental authors. We know from the Fihrist that he wrote several books on different subjects, but unfortunately all his works are lost.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1928 , pp. 15 - 25
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- Copyright School of Oriental and African Studies 1928
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page 23 note 2 As has already been mentioned, al-Iṣṭakhr's geography may be regarded as a much (?) enlarged edition of al-Balkh's Suwar.
page 23 note 3 al-Balkh died in A.H. 322, and al-Iṣṭakhr probably in 340.
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page 24 note 1 Of the two maps reproduced herewith from Add. 23542, Plate I, representing the Mediterranean Sea, should be compared with the reproductions in Miller's Islam- Atlas No. 6 (Mapp Arabic, 1. Band, 1. Heft); and Plate II, representing North- West Africa and Spain, with those in his Islam-Atlas No. 3 (ibid., 2. Band, Beiheft).