'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎361r] (744/820)

The revenue of the district is realized in cash
and amounted in 1905 to 45,000 tumans.
The several buluks and their villages are as
follows:—
Gundkdd. —Villages: Gunalad^ Ghujd, Sarghujd, Khaibari, DalivI,
Jumand or Jumin, Raihan, Riab, Katamabad, Bagh-i-Siah,
Bilun, Bildagh, Naughab, Hajiabad, Naudeh, Sai Tur Naukar,
and some others.
Revenue.
Sub-divisions and village.
Tun. —Tun, Saiain, Anarak, Zuabad, Varistanak, KkanI and others.
Tabas. —The city and about 90 villages.
Bijistdn. —Villages: Bijistan, Rui Sang, Yunsi and others.
Bushruleh . —Bushruieh, Robat-i-Shur, Aspak, Naginth, Deh Muhaim
mad and others.
The inhabitants of Tabas are of the ’Arab tribe of Ibn-i-Sharban, who
were brought there by one of the kings of
In a itants. the Safavian dynasty. The remaining inhab
itants of the district are mostly Bersians, with some Baluchi nomads.
Tabas was termed “ Tabas-at-Tamr ” or “ Tabas of the date-palm ” by
the ’Arab geographers, to distinguish it from
His ory ' “ Tabas-al-’Unnab ” (jujube-tree) to the east
of Birjand. The date of its foundation is unknown, but it is connected by
place names with Parthian times. In A. H. 31 (651 A.D.) Tabas was
conquered by the Khalif Uthman and later on it became the centre of the
famous Isma’ili sect, whose tenets are responsible for the modern word
‘ ‘assassin ’ ’ and for the true story of the ‘ ‘ Old Man of the Mountain. ’ ’ In
the eleventh century A. D. it was known as Tabas Gilaki after a chief who
had conquered it, and in the eighteenth century Nadir Shah conferred the
district on’Ali Murad Khan, an ’Arab of the Zangui tribe, in return for
services rendered to him when lost in the But. This tribe is connected
with that of the Amirs of Kaln, the Khuzai. The same family still govern
the district.— (Yate ; Maula Bakhsh ; Sykes, 1906.)
TABAS (No. 2) (District)—
One of the buluks of the Sabzawar district of Khoiasan. It is a fine
well-watered tract to the north-east of Sabzawar, including the lower spurs
and skirts of the Jaghatai-Juvain hills. It is considered the best buluk of
the district. Grain crops are raised without irrigation on the hill slopes ;
and on the plain a good deal of silk and cotton. There are 15 principal
villages.— (Bellew ; Napier.)
TABAS (No. 3) (District)—
One of the buluks (sub-divisions) of the Rain district of Khorasan. It
includes the old buluk of Sunnlkhaneh {q. v.), and is the largest and the
most fertile sub-division in the district. Its revenue amounts to
tumdns 7,640 per annum.—{Maula Bakhsh.)