ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Author" content="Vassil Karloukovski"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <title>Hudud al-'Alam - 43-53 - Commentary of V. Minorsky</title> </head> <body> <font face="Palatino Linotype"> <b><font size=+1>Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World</font></b> <br><b>V. Minorsky</b> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><b>§§ 43-53 Eastern Europe.</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">The following list of the principal sources, as well as of the works utilizing Muslim sources on Eastern Europe, may be not unwelcome. For details see notes to single chapters. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">I.Kh., passim, see Index; I. Faq+h, 270 ( = I.Kh., 124, but the merchants are called <i>tujjr al-S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqliba</font></i><font face="Palatino Linotype">); even the Mashhad MS. of I. Faq+h does not seem to contain any new details on the Rks,&nbsp;S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqlb, &amp;c., to judge by A. Z. Validi, in <i>Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk</i>, 1924, pp. 237-48; I. Rusta, 138-48 (Khazar, Burds, Bulkr, al-Majghariya, al-S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqlabiya, al-Rksiya); I. Fad</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">ln , <i>Risla</i> (quoted and utilized by Yqkt under <i>Itil, Bshghurd, Bulghar, Khazar, Khwrism, Rks</i>, and <i>W+sk</i>); Mas'kd+, <i>Murkj</i>, ii, 1-77 (Rks, Burghar, W.l.nd.riya, Caucasian peoples); the passage on the Slavs edited in Marquart's <i>Streifzüge</i>, 97-101; Mas'kd+, Tanb+h (Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s p. 62; W.l.nd.riya pp. 180-3; Burghar,&nbsp;S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqliba, Rks, Sar+r, <i>passim</i>); Is</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">t</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">., 220-7 (Khazar, al-Sar+r, Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s, Bulghr, Rks, &amp;c.); I.H</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">., 278-87 </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><img SRC="line_down.gif" height=18 width=596> <br>426&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Commentary</i>&nbsp;&nbsp; §§ 43-53 </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">(Khazar, Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s, Basjirt, Bulghr); [Ibrh+m b. Was+f-shh], <i>L&#39;abrégé des merveilles</i>, tr. Carra de Vaux, 1898 (Slavs, pp. 45-6; Burjn, pp. 123-4); Maq., 360 (Itil, Rks, Bulghr, Suwr, Khazar  very brief); Gard+z+, 78-126 (Bachank, Khazar, Burds, Bulkr, Majghar, Saqlb [sic], Rks, Sar+r, Aln); al-Bakr+, ed. Rosen, SPb., 1878 (S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqlib, Bajankiya, Khazar, Furds, Bulkr, Majghariya, Sar+r, Burjn); 'Auf+, <i>Jawmi' al-h</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">ikyt</i>, part iv, ch. 16, in Barthold, <i>A new Muslim report on the Russians</i> (in Russian), Zap., ix, 1895, 262-7; [the rest of 'Auf+'s data on the Khazar, Burds, Majghariya,&nbsp;S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">aqlbiyn are an abridgement of I. Rusta; the data on Gurj, Usln (*al-Ln?), Sar+r, and Darband are very brief, see Br. Mus., Or. 2676, ff. 67-9]; Yqkt, <i>Itil</i>, i, 112-13, <i>Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s</i>, i, 567 [this paragraph refers chiefly not to the Burt</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">s but to the Bulghrs], <i>Burghar</i>, i, 568 (after Mas'kdi), <i>Bulghar</i>, i, 722-7, <i>Bshghurt</i>, i, 468-70, <i>Khazar</i>, ii, 436-40, <i>Khwrizm</i>, ii, 484-5, <i>Rks</i>, ii, 834-40,&nbsp;S</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype"><i>aqlab</i>,iii, 405; <i>W+sk</i>, i, 34 and iv, 944; Ibn Iys, in F. Arnold, <i>Chrestomatia Arabica</i>, i, 73-6: Rks, Bulghr. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">Frähn, <i>Veteres memoriae Chasarorum ex Ibn Foszlano, Ibn Haukale et Schems-ed-dino Damascene</i> and <i>De Baschkiris quae memoriae prodita sunt</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, t. v+, 1822, pp. 577-620 [separately printed under the title Frähn, De Chasaris excerpta ex scriptoribus arabicis, pars i, 1822, 44 pp., ibid., De Baschkiris]; Frähn, <i>Ibn Foszlans und anderer Araber Berichte über die Russen älterer Zeit</i>, SPb., 1823; Hammer, <i>Sur les origines russes</i>, SPb., 1827; A. C. Mouradja d'Ohsson, <i>Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la Mer Noire et de la Mer Caspienne dans le 10e siècle</i>, Paris 1828; Frähn, <i>Drei Münzen der Wolga-Bulgharen aus d. X. Jahrhundert</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, série vi, t. i, 1832, pp. 171-204; Frähn, <i>Die ältesten arabischen Nachrichten über die Wolga-Bulgharen aus Ibn Fosslans Reiseberichten</i>, in <i> Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, série vi, t. i, 1832, pp. 527-77; Charmoy, <i>Relations de Mas'oud+ et d'autres auteurs musulmans sur les anciens Slaves</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, série vi, t. ii, livraisons 3 et 4, 1834, pp. 297-408; Frähn, <i>Ibn-Abi-Jakub el-Nadim's Nachricht von der Schrift der Russen im X. Jahrhundert n. Chr.</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, série vi, t. iii, 1836, pp. 507-30; P. S. Savelyev, <i>Muhammadan Numismatics as related to Russian History</i> (in Russian), SPb., 1846; Defrémery, <i>Fragments de géographes et historiens arabes et persans relatifs aux anciens peuples du Caucase et de la Russie méridionale</i>, in <i>Jour. As.</i>, 1849, t. 13, pp. 460-77 (al-Bakr+); Chwolson, <i>Izvestiya o Khazarakh &amp;c. Ibn Dasta</i> [read: <i>Ibn Rusta</i>], SPb., 1869; A. Garkavi (Harkavy), <i>Skazaniya musulmanskikh pisateley o Slav'anakh i Russkikh</i>, SPb., 1870 (Supplement 1871); A. Kunik and Baron V. Rosen, <i>Isvestiya al-Bakr+ i drugikh avtorov o Rusi i slav'anakh</i>, SPb., i, 1878, ii, 1903; Dorn, Caspia, <i>Über die Einfälle der alten Russen in&nbsp;T</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">abaristn</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb</i>., série vii, t. xxiii, no. 1, 1875 (Russian edition of the same work, <i>ibid</i>., t. xxvi, annex 1, 1875); G. Jacob, <i>Welche Handelsartikel bezogen die Araber des Mittelalters aus den nordisch-baltischen Ländern?</i> 2nd ed., Berlin 1891; F. Westberg, <i>Ibrh+m's-ibn-Ja'kkb&#39;s Reisebericht über die Slawenländer aus dem Jahre 965</i>, in <i>Mém. Acad. SPb.</i>, série viii, t. iii, no. 4, 1898 (a revised edition in Russian: <i>Kommentariy na zapisku Ibrhim ibn</i> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><img SRC="line_down.gif" height=18 width=596> <br>§§ 43-53&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Eastern Europe</i>&nbsp;&nbsp; 427 </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">Yakuba, SPb., 1903, with a very complete list of literature on Ibrh+m); Westberg, <i>Beiträge sur Klärung orientalischer Quellen über Osteuropa (Erste Hälfte des Mittelalters)</i>, in <i>Bull. Acad. SPb.</i>, 1899, t. xi, No. 4, November 1899, pp. 211-45, No. 5, December 1899, pp. 279-314; Barthold, <i>Geografiya Ibn Sa'+da</i>, 1898; Marquart, <i>Streifzüge</i>, 1903, passim; A. A. Spits<img SRC="i_k.jpg" height=17 width=8 align=ABSBOTTOM>n, <i>On the Degree of Trustworthiness of I. Fad</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">ln 's Risla</i> (in Russian), in <i>Zap. Imp. Russ. Arch. Obsh.</i>, new series xi, 161-6; Baron V. G. Tiesenhausen, <i>In Defense of I. Fad</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">ln</i> (in Russian), Zap., xiii, pp. 024-032; Baron Rosen, <i>Prolegomena k novomu izdaniyu Ibn-Fad</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">lna</i>, in <i>Zap</i>., xv/2, 1904, pp. 39-73; Westberg, <i>K analisu vostochn<img SRC="i_k.jpg" height=17 width=8 align=ABSBOTTOM>kh istochnikov o vostochnoy Evrope</i>, in <i>Zhurnal Min. Narodn. Prosv.</i>, new series, 1909, xiii, February, pp. 364-412, xiv, March, pp. 1-52; S. M. Seredonin, <i>Istoricheskaya geografiya</i>, posthumous edition, SPb., 1916 (Bulgars, pp. 89-96; Khazars, pp. 97-106; Eastern Slavs, pp. 106-52; Pechenegs, Torks, Polovtsi, pp. 153-96; Finnish peoples, pp. 197-220; Variags, pp. 221-40); P. Smirnov, <i>The Volga route and the ancient Rus' </i>(in Ukrainian), ed. by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 1928, 228 pp. (a very interesting work in which the passages from Muslim geographers including the H</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype"><i>udkd al-'lam</i> have been utilized in translation); A. Seippel, <i>Rerum normannicarum fontes arabici</i>, Oslo, i, 1896 (excerpts from 50 Arabic authors; texts), ii, 1928 (variants); P. K. Kokovtsov, <i>Yevreisko-khazarskaya perepiska v X veke</i>, ed. Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R., 1932 (a critical re-edition of the Hebrew documents on the Khazars). Krachkovsky, <i>On the Preparation of a Corpus of Arabic Sources regarding the History of Central Asia</i> (in Russian), in <i>Zap. Institut. Vostokov. Akademii Nauk USSR</i>., Leningrad, 1932, i, pp. 55-62. <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_43.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_43_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>