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'The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur' [‎205] (242/586)

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Chardin as opening on the east side), Kushk, Jtibarah (this was
the eastern quarter when Chardin wrote, and the Jiibarah Gate
was to the north-east), and Dardasht (the gate of this name lay
to the north, and the Dardasht quarter was to the north-west).
Mustawfi writes that the most populous quarter under the Saljtiks
had been that known as Julbarah (the Gulbar quarter of Chardin,
round the present Maydan-i-Kuhnah or 4 Old Square'), where
stood the College and Tomb of Sultan Muhammad the Saljiik,
and here might be seen a block of stone weighing 10,000 mans
(equivalent, perhaps, to a little less than 32 tons weight), this being
a great idol, carried off by the Sultan from India, and set up
before the college gate 1 .
When Timtir conquered Isfahan at the close of the 8th (14th)
century, the name of the citadel which he occupied is given as
KaPah Tabarik (the latter word meaning a 'hillock' in the
Persian dialect), and the ruins of this castle, which still exist,
are described by Chardin as standing outside the Dardasht Gate.
Further we are informed that Malik Shah the Saljuk erected
another strong castle—the Shah-Diz, 'the Royal Fort'—on the
summit of a mountain close to Isfahan in the year 500 (1107),
and Kazvini adds a long anecdote relating the circumstances that
brought about its foundation. At the beginning of the 10th (16th)
century, Persia came under the rule of Shah Ismail the Safavid,
and at the close of the century Shah 'Abbas the Great transferred
his capital from Ardabil to Isfahan, whither he also removed the
whole Armenian population of Julfah on the river Aras, settling
them in a new quarter of the city which he founded on the
southern or right bank of the Zayindah Rtid. Shah 'Abbas also
added other new quarters and suburbs to Isfahan, but north
of the river, all of which are minutely described by Chardin, who
lived at Isfahan for many years during the latter half of the 17th
century a.d. 2
1 History, however, does not record that this Sultan Muhammad—he
reigned from 498 to 511 (1104— an< ^ was a son 0 f Malik Shah—made any
conquests in India ; possibly Mustawfi has mistaken him for Mahmud of
Ghaznah.
2 I. R. 160, 162. I. H. 161. Muk. 386, 387, 388, 389. N. K. 93.
Yak. i. 295; ii. 181; iii. 246; iv. 452, 1045. A. F. 411. Mst. 142. A. Y.

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The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur

Publication Details: Cambridge : University Press, 1905.

Notes: Cambridge Geographical Series.

Physical Description: xvii, 536 p., 10 maps (folded).

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