"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٧] (٣٨٨/٢٢)

PREFACE.
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Khorasmia and Maweralnahr, from Ebn Haukal's foofc, with
those which describe the scmie places in my manuscript, sirffi-
ciently demonstrates the identity of their author. I shall
refer the reader, in particular, to Abulfeda's account of
Tuncat, the chief place of Ailak, near Chaje or Shash;
its numerous gates; water running in the city; its wall to
prevent the incursions of the Turks, reaching from the
mountain called Shabaleg, to the valley of Chaje; the
river named Ailak &c. All these the reader will find more
fully described hy Ebn Haukal in the following work ("pages
260, 207) ; with a variation occasioned merely hy the differ
ent collocation of diacritical points in the names of Tuncat
and Shabaleg. The account of Naksheb and of Kash, as ex-
tracted hy Abulfeda-^ from Ebn Haukal's hook, will he
found to correspond exactly with the description of those cities
given in the following translation, pages 259, 2O0, A
comparison of these passages will convince the reader, that the
Mesalek al Memalek, of which an English version is now
hefore him, must be the work o/Ebn Haukal, so often quoted
by Abulfeda.
* Chorasm, et Maweraln. p. 49*
t Chorasm, &c. p.