ART. XXIV.—Description of Persia and Mesopotamia in the Year 1340 A.B
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. ART. XXIV.—Description of Persia and Mesopotamia in the year 1340 A.B. from the Nuzhat-al-Kulub of Hamd-Allah Mu&tawfi, with a summary of the contents of that work. By Gr. LE STRANGE. {Continued from p. 536, July Number, 1902.) Chapter 17. Khurasan. Contents: Nishapur, 185m; Shadyakh, 185M; Isfarayin, 186y; Bayhak and Sabzivar, 186/; Biyar, 186»; Juwayn, I860; Jajarm, lS6r ; Khabushan, 186M; ShakkSn, 186w; Tus, 186a:; Kalat and Jirm, 187«; Marlnan, 187/; Herat, 187A; Asfuzar, 187s; Fushanj, 187t; Malan and Bakharz, 187«; Badghis, 187a; Jam, 188«; Chast, 188y; Khwaf, 188;'; Zawah, 188«; Ghur, Balkh, Tukharistan, Bamiyan, and Panjhlr, I880; Juzjan, 188£; Khutlan, 188M; Saminjan, 188MI; Tayikan, 188a;; Talikan, 189« ; Faryab and Kavadiyan, 1893 ; Kalif, 189^; Marv Shahijan, 189/; Shaburkan, 189^ and 1905; Ablvard, 189s; Khavaran, 189*!; Khavardan, 189M; Sarakhs, 189z; Marv-ar-Eud, 1903; Maraz, 190«; Kal'ah May, 190/ Khurasan in the middle ages was far more extensive than is the province of this name in modern Persia. Mediaeval Khurasan extended on the north-east to the Oxus, and included all the districts round Herat which now belong to Afghanistan. On the other hand, the small province of Kumis, on the northern boundary of the Great Desert, which at the present day is included within the limits of Persian Khurasan, was of old a separate district, and formed in the time of Mustawfi a province apart, Hamd-Allah divides Khurasan into four quarters (Rub') J.B.A.S. 1902. 47 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Arizona, on 18 Jun 2017 at 14:22:21, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms.
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