"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٤‎١‎٩] (٦١٢/٥٨٠)

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Dean Vincent has shown unmistakeably that el-Kishm is the
Ouroetha of Nearehus,—corresponding with the Woroctha of
1 tolemy, the Oracla of Pliny, and the Doracta of Strabo,—and
Imds :n Brock or Vroct, the name given to the island by Texeira,
the more ancient native designation. 1 "Ibn-Kawan," or, as Ibn-
Haukal writes it, "the Island of the Benu-Kawan," was probably
the name given to it by the Arabs on their first settlement there,
i rom a passage in el-Beladzory it appears to have been the island
where the Muslims from the province of el-Bahrein first landed
when they contemplated the invasion of Fars. 2
Among the more modern names of the island are Jezirat-Diraz
and Jezirat-et-Tawilah, the Persian and Arabic respectively for
Long Island. The designation "el-Kishm," as I have stated in
note 3, p. iv, is vocalized "el-Kasum" by the anther of this work,
and I take the vnlgar "el-Kishm" to be a corruption of that
word, which signifies Beauty. Some writers are of opinion that
Kishmish, the Persian name for a small seedless raisin, owes its
origin to el-Kishm. Persian scholars must decide whether the
derivative, so formed and applied, is in accordance with the
grammatical rules of that lano-uace.
O O
It is a remarkable circumstance that so many of the ancient
names of places in the Persian Gulf have been superseded by
others, many of which are utterly unlike the original either in
1 Com. and Nav. of the Ancients, vol. i. p. 351-2.
2 The passage is as follows " When el-'Ala-ibn-el-Hadbramy was
agent over el-Babrein for [the Khalifah] 'Omar-bin-el-Khattah, he sent
Harthamah-bin-'Arfajab, el-Barikhy, an Azdite, who took possession of
an island in the sea near to Faris. 'Omar then wrote to el 'Ala, sending
LTtbab-bin-Farkad, es-Salmy, to cooperate with him. Afterwards, wben
'Omar made 'Othman-bin-Abi-'l-Asy, eth-Tbakafy, governor over el-
Babrein and 'Oman,—which places be subdued, reducing the iubabitants
to obedience,—he sent bis brother el Hakm-bin-Abi-'l Asy by sea to Faris
with a large army, composed of the 'Abd-el-Kais, tbe el-Azd, Temirn, tbe
Benu-Najiyab, and others, and he captured tbe island of Abr-Kawan."
The historian then goes on to mention the names of tbe places upon tbe
coast which were subsequently captured, among which is Siraf. The
learned editor in a foot-note remarks that el-Yakut writes the word
" Bar- [or Barr-] Kawan," adding, "vulgo Beni-Kawan;" and then "al-
terum nomen insula est Lafit," the modern Laft. FuWi-el-Bulddn, ed.
De Goeje, pp. 386-391.