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Sallam's Outward Journey: Samarra–Yumenguan sallam’s outward journey 207 CHAPTER TEN SALLAM’S OUTWARD JOURNEY: SAMARRA–YUMENGUAN (CA. JULY/AUGUST 842–NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 843) 1. Reasons for the journey In Sallam’s travel account the reason for his journey is the dream of the Caliph al-Wathiq1 (regn. 842-47): it was as if the barrier which exists between us [i.e. the Muslim world] and Gog and Magog had cracked [cf. Koran XVIII:93]. As is occasionally the case in religious tradition, Islam sees a dream as a divine revelation, linked to prophecy and completing it. al-Wathiq’s dream may be seen as an expression of current eschatological ideas, activated by fear of the Turks, in whom the collectors of the hadith in the first half of the 9th century saw personifications of Gog and Magog. Similar ideas were alive among Syrian Christians in the Arab world. The fear of Christians and Muslims is clearly expressed in the Apocalypse of Bahira,2 dated between 817-24 i.e. during the reign of Caliph al-Ma"mun. Quite correctly al-Ma"mun is indicated in this text as the seventh Imam (caliph), i.e. of the #Abbasids, and the twenty-fourth of all caliphs taken together. According to the Apocalypse the end of time will come during al-Ma"mun’s reign. The aim of the text is “to strip the Prophet’s biography of all the lustre with which the compilers of hadith were already beginning to done it”.3 At the same time the Christian author of the text wants to bring the Koran from the sup- posed divine level down to the human level. If this is indeed the case, the aim of the Apocalypse of Bahira might be seen as a Syrian reflex of al-Wathiq’s endeavour to rationalize the stories on the Seven Sleepers 1 Cf. EI2 s.v. al-W§thiÎ bi-ll§h, Abå Dja#far H§rån (K. Zetterstéen– C.E. Bosworth–E. van Donzel); cf. Ibn al-AthÊr, Kit§b al-K§mil, vi, p. 372, 376; vii, p. 6-9, 12-26. 2 Sergios-BaÈÊr§ was a Christian monk or hermit in Southern Syria, whom the Prophet MuÈammad met in his youth, cf. EI2 s.v. (A. Abel). The apocalypse exists twice in a Syriac and Arabic recension, cf. Hoyland, Seeing Islam, p. 271-276, 478. 3 A. Abel, Changements politiques et littérature eschatologique dans le monde musulman, in: Studia Islamica 2 (1954), p. 29; cf. id., L’apocalypse de BaÈîra, p. 11. schmidt_BIAL22.indb Sec1:207 12/12/2008 11:42:31 AM 208 chapter ten (the “People of the Cave”), and Gog and Magog and the barrier of Alexander ‘the two-horned as found in the Koran. The investigations into these quite popular themes may indeed have been inspired by the Caliph al-Wathiq’s wish to put an end to misuses of the Koran, by his Mu#tazilism, and by the question whether or not the Koran is created.4 The Apocalypse of Bahira undoubtedly has a Syrian back- ground: the predictions about the Antichrist, Gog and Magog, the four kingdoms (the Turks as the last kingdom), and the Final Judgement are based on the 8th century Apocalypses of Daniel and Ezra. Pseudo-Methodius is explicitly mentioned.5 Muslim circles in Baghdad and Samarra, among them Ibn Khurradadhbih and/or Sallam, may well have been acquainted with these apocalyptical ideas alive among the Syrian Christians. This in its turn may explain the similarity between the Syriac tradition of Alexander’s barrier and that given by Sallam and Ibn Khurradadhbih.6 The Arab geographers, Ibn Khurradadhbih, al-Muqaddasi, al- Mas#udi and Yaqut all relate that the caliph sent the astronomer al-Khwarazmi (ca. 800-47) to Byzantium to investigate the story of the Sleepers of Ephesus.7 Ibn Khurradadhbih even writes that the astronomer himself told him that the Greek emperor had sent some- one to accompany him to Qorra,8 and that they had travelled to the place of the alleged Cave of the Sleepers. al-Muqaddasi suggests that the purpose of al-Khwarazmi’s mission was to collect informa- tion about Gog and Magog. If that was the case, at least two missions were planned at the beginning of al-Wathiq’s reign to gather infor- mation about the barrier. The astronomer’s journey had preceded 4 Cf. al-Mas#ådÊ, Murådj, viii, p. 222ff., where it is said that al-W§thiÎ began to question the doctrine according to which the Koran was created. 5 Hoyland, Seeing Islam, p. 276-278; Abel, L’apocalypse de BaÈîra, p. 6f. 6 Cf. Chapter 8, p. ■■, and Chapter 9, p. ■■. 7 M.J. de Goeje, De legende der Zevenslapers, in: Mededeelingen der Kon. Acad. van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, 4e reeks, 4e deel, Amsterdam 1901, p. 27, 29. Y§Îåt, Mu#djam, ii, p. 805f. (where he is called MuÈammad b. Mås§ al-Munadjdjim (‘the astronomer’); al-MuÎaddasÊ, AÈsan al-taΧsÊm, p. 362-365. The story was also told in al-Mas#ådÊ’s lost “Middle Book”, Kit§b awßat (id., Murådj, § 730-732): al-Mas#ådÊ writes that al-W§thiÎ sent al-Khw§razmi to Germa (not identified). He adds that he dealt there also with the barrier which ‘the two-horned one’ had built to prevent the passage of Gog and Magog. 8 Perhaps Koron in West Cappadocia and since806 in the hands of the Arabs, cf. F. Hild, Das Byzantinische Straßensystem in Kappadokien, Wien 1977, p. 50, 42 (map); E. Honigmann, Die Ostgrenze des Byzantinischen Reiches von 363 bis 1071, Bruxelles 1961, p. 45. For other places of the Cave of the Seven Sleepers in Cappadocia and Cilicia according to the Muslim tradition, cf. Kandler, Siebenschläfer, p. 62-76. schmidt_BIAL22.indb Sec1:208 12/12/2008 11:42:32 AM.
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