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46 A HISTORY OF SHARVAN AND DARBAND<br />
town. Then (Tuzi) sent a request to the sharvanshah (<strong>in</strong>vit<strong>in</strong>g him) to<br />
come.1 The latter arrived at the March (thaghr) and was met by the<br />
local notables and chiefs, with (the <strong>in</strong>habitants) from the lowest to the<br />
highest, who with exhuberant honours brought him <strong>in</strong>to the March.<br />
Then, <strong>in</strong> the same year, Balid (Baldu?), slave (mamluk) of amir<br />
Maymun, set upon (zafira HM] the sharvanshah <strong>in</strong> the "government<br />
build<strong>in</strong>g", wounded him and fled to his master <strong>in</strong> Tabarsaran, whereas<br />
the wounded sharvanshah left for Sharvan. Amir Maymun reoccupied<br />
the country but was expelled from it <strong>in</strong> 381/991. The sharvanshah was<br />
brought back, and he rebuilt the citadel and fortified it.<br />
In 382/992 amir Maymun returned, burnt the Damascus gate8 and<br />
occupied the town. In 383/993 he also wrested the citadel from the<br />
sharvanshah and dismantled the middle wall which the sharvanshah had<br />
built. The period between its construction and demolition was one year<br />
and five months. In the same year amir Maymun had the gate of Damascus<br />
and that of Palest<strong>in</strong>e made of pure iron.<br />
In 385/995 the people of K.rj (*Karakh?)3 were converted to Islam<br />
by amir Maymun.<br />
On Monday, 15 Safar 387/27 February 997* amir Maymun b. Ahmad<br />
died after a reign of twenty-one years, at the age of thirty-eight years<br />
§37. His brother MUHAMMAD b. AHMAD b.
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