564-565;
Ribeyro, as above, App. p. 196.)
[1] So the Barbary coast from Tunis westward was called by the Arabs
Bar-ul-'Adwah, "Terra Transitus," because thence they used to
pass into Spain. (J. As. for Jan. 1846, p. 228.)
[2] Wassaf has Fitan, Mali Fitan, Kabil and meant the names so, as
he shows by silly puns. For my justification in presuming to correct
the names, I must refer to an article, in the J. R. As. Soc.,
N.S. IV. p. 347, on Rashiduddin's Geography.
[3] The same information is given in almost the same terms by Rashiduddin.
(See Elliot, I. 69.) But he (at least in Elliot's translation)
makes Shaikh Jumaluddin the successor of the Devar, instead of
merely the narrator of the circumstances. This is evidently a mistake,
probably of transcription, and Wassaf gives us the true version.
The members of the Arab family bearing the surname of At-Thaibi (or
Thibi) appear to have been powerful on the coasts of the Indian Sea at
this time, (1) The Malik-ul-Islam Jamaluddin Ibrahim At Thaibi was
Farmer-General of Fars, besides being quasi-independent Prince of Kais
and other Islands in the Persian Gulf, and at the time of his death
(1306) governor of Shiraz. He had the horse trade with India greatly
in his hands, as is mentioned in a note (7) on next chapter. (2) The
son of Jamaluddin, Fakhruddin Ahmed, goes ambassador to the Great Kaan
in 1297, and dies near the coast of Ma'bar on his way back in 1305.
