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260 TRIBUTES OF FARS, SIND, ETC. [CHAP. XI.
sheep, 1022 slaves, and 1500 iron boxes and plates, of two
parts : or 28,000,000 dirhems, 2000 plates of silver, 4000
horses, 1000 slaves, 27,000 balls of cloths, 3000 rotls of
cocoa-nuts.
Ahwaz, 30,000 dirhems (as kheraj): under the Persians
50,000,000 dirhems : or 25,000 dirhems, and 30,000 rotls of
sugar. 1
Fars, 30,000 dirhems; under the Persian kings 40,000,000
mithkals. Amran ben Musa, the Bermakit, added Sind to
this province, when the revenue amounted, after all the ex
penses were defrayed, to 10,000,000 dirhems: or 27,000,000
dirhems, 30,000 bottles of rose-water, 20,000 rotls of black
currants.
Ispahan, 70,000,000 dirhems.
Masindan and Murjahdak, 350,000 dirhems. Ibn Khaldun
says, Masindan, Murjan, and the Kurahs of Jebel paid
11,000,000 dirhems. Hammer-Purgstall reads, Masindan
and Robban, 400,000 dirhems.
Kom, 1,000,000 dirhems.
Sind, 11,500,000 dirhems, 150 rotls of Indian aloe.
Mekran, 400,000 dirhems.
The Nejranites. Nejran, 200 costly dresses, 240 rotls of sealing-earth. The
last mentioned author says, that this is Nejran of Yemen;
but in this he is mistaken. There were Christians in Nejran,
in Yemen, whom Muhammed took under his protection
without asking any other tribute, or meddling with their
affairs any further than that they should give 2000 striped
Arabian garments, and maintain for one month the delegates
whom he might send there. When Omar was Khaliph, he
had the intention of introducing throughout all Arabia the
same religion and laws; and the Nejranites who refused to
conform he obliged to leave their country: but he gave them
some villages in 'Irak, where they settled, retaining their
former name, Nejrani. This is the people spoken of above.
Abu Yusuf has preserved the original treaties of Muhammed
and the four first Khaliphs, from which it seems that, in
1 Ibn Khaldun.—MS. of the British Museum, 9574, fol. 162, verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. .