‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ [‎116] (169/388)

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As to the different religious sects of the people of Pars, those
who inhabit the sea-shore are of the same sect as the people of
Basrah. From Siraf to Mahi-rooyan, and to At glinn, are
nearly all the same. TLhe inhabitants ot ^he
Moatazelite heresy: Those who dwell in the warm region are of
seven different sects : and those of the cold region, of Shiraz,
and Istakhar, and Besa, are believers in the Sonna (or traditions
of Mahommed); and some are like the people of Baghdad, and
have the Fetwa, according to the rules of those who tollow the
Hadith, or holy traditions.
In Pars there are Fire-worshippers, or Guebres and
Christians (^LjUy), and some Jews " and the books .
of the Guebres, their fire temples, and their customs or cere
monies of Guebrism, or Magism, still continue among the people
of Pars; and there are not in any country of Islam so many
Guebres as in the land of Pars, which has been their capital or
chief residence
I n the books of the Persians ( q U^I j ) it is recorded that se
veral of their kings were of Pars, such as Zohak, and Jem,
and Feridoun, and others, till the time that Feridoun divided the
earth among his sons; and they were the kings of the earth till
the time that ZhuTkarnein (Alexander the Great) came, and slew
* See the original of this passage in the Appendix.