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34 A HISTORY OF SHARVAN AND DARBAND
it, (The latter) fled from the Sharvan territory, but Sail ax sent a detachment
in pursuit which overtook him and killed him near Baylaqan.
In 445/1053 Sallar conquered the castle of Malu (*Malugh?). He
stormed it and then fortified it and placed in it a garrison, provisions and
arms. Beside it he built a strong town (madma) in which he settled
people and built a cathedral mosque. Thus Sallar carried on fighting
the infidels and protecting the country from their wickedness and harm.
He died on Sunday, 18 Safar 455/20 February I0631 after having ruled
some fifteen years.
§19. After him ruled his heir-apparent FARlBURZ b, SALLAR
b. Yazid, in whose charge all (the) affairs were even in his father's time,
In Rabi< I 455/March 1063 the lord of Arran Shavur b, Fadl entered
Sharvan and stormed the castle of Quylamiyan8 and placed his garrison
in it. In the same year he returned and raided Sharvan, brutally plundered
and ruined it and drove away the flocks and herds. The Sharvanians,
who fought him, were defeated, while many of their notables were taken
prisoner and their property looted. Thence Shavur went to pitch his
tents at the gate of Yazidiya where he captured his daughter, wife (hanm)
of the late Sallar, with all the money and (heavy) baggage belonging
to her. Then he went home to Arran but returned for the third time
in Rajab (455)/July 1063, and stayed at the village of Sa'dun burning
crops, villages and estates. The sharvanshah sent his son Afridun,
accompanied by Anushirvan b. Lashkari, to the Sarfr to ask its ruler,
who was his grandfather (namely, his mother's father), for help. But
he obtained nothing from him and (B 727) came home after three months.
In Muharram 456/January 1064 the lord of Arran Abul-Aswar
Shavur b. Fadl entered Sharvan (for the fourth time). He captured
K.r and *Qatran and took Hamavan (B: Mawari), Then he went back
leaving in Sharvan some of his troops with certain of his amirs, after
he had exacted 40,000 dinars from the country. The sharvanshah
Fariburz made peace with him in Rajab/June-July 1064 and Shavur
restored Quylamiyan (?) to him, after having obtained (a further?)
40,000 dinars from him.
In 457/1065 Fariburz collected his army and with it raided the villages
of al-Bab looting and ruining them. While he stayed at *Mihyariya
in Masqat, the people of al-Bab fought him at the Qal'aban3 bridge and
he (?) slaughtered a great many of them. The cause of these events
was that the people of al-Bab with their chiefs had revolted against
their amir Mansur b.