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Chinese Records of the Arabs in Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

H. A. R. Gibb
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The Arab Empire of the Umayyad Period is still one of the problems of history. Muslim historians, in spite of their theological prejudice against the reigning house, display a not unnatural undercurrent of pride in its triumphs of conquest. European historians of the period fall into two classes: those who regard the Empire as an organized system of government, carrying on and blending the Roman and Persian traditions, and those who see in it an organized system of exploitation, copying the older administrations only so far as they ministered to the rapacity of the conquerors.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , February 1923 , pp. 613 - 622
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1923

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page 615 note 1 This is Chavannes' amendment to the reading “East” of the original text. The latter is defended, however, by Sir Aurel Stein on the ground of possible Arab raids up the Indus from Sind (Serindia, i, 20, n. 41).

page 615 note 2 See Bretschneider, On the Knowledge possessed by the ancient Chinese of the Arabs, p. 9; Wieger, Textes Historiques, 1648, etc.

page 619 note 1 Since Ṭukhāristān, though a vassal state, still had a free hand in directing its eastern policy.

page 619 note 2 See Mason, Isaac, The Arabian Prophet: A Life of Mohammad from Chinese Sources (Shanghai, 1921), p. 271.Google Scholar

page 621 note 1 It is quite clear that the embassies travelled overland, and were not casual visits of seafaring merchants, as has been suggested.

page 621 note 2 The horses offered were most probably not Arab horses but those of the celebrated ṬukhĀ;iī breed.