Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.4
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.4
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² This account which is in two parts is named Silsilát-ut-Tawárikh, that is the Chain of History. The first part was written in A.D. 851-52 by Sulaimán and has the advantage of being the work of a traveller who himself knew the countries he describes. The second part was written by Abu Zeid al-Hasan of Siráf on the Persian Gulf about sixty years after Sulaimán's account. Though Abu Zeid never visited India, he made it his business to read and question travellers who had been in India. Abul Hasan-el-Masúdi (A.D. 915-943) who met him at Basrah is said to have imparted to and derived much information from Abu Zeid. Sir Henry Elliot's History of India, I, 2.