[35] M. Massignon heard of it under the name of Makhḍah or Madjḍah, but he did not visit it. Op. cit., p. 30.
[36] Le Strange, Lands of the Eastern Kaliphate, p. 92.
[37] Residence in Koordistan, vol. i, p. 40.
[38] Amurath to Amurath, p. 191. Massignon, Mission en Mésopotamie, vol. ii, p. 41.
[39] Tower tomb at Bostân, dated on the miḥrâb A.D. 1300-1301, Denkmäler persischer Baukunst, p. 116, and Plate 85. Tower tomb at Rhages, twelfth or thirteenth century, ibid., p. 57. Tower tomb at Veramîn, twelfth or thirteenth century, ibid., p. 59. Minaret of Khodja ‘Alam at Iṣfahân, probably end of fourteenth or beginning of fifteenth century, ibid., p. 76 and Plate 62.
[40] Sarre, op. cit., p. 76; Fergusson, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, p. 494.
[41] M. Massignon heard of a ruined khân called ‘Aṭishân, op. cit., p. 30. He places it too far east in his map.
[42] Cf. the east, west, and south gates of Ukhaiḍir.
[43] Cf. a calotte in the central court at Ukhaiḍir, Plate 26, Fig. 2.
[44] This seems to be the road to which al-Ḥadjdjâdj alludes (Ṭabari, vol. ii, p. 945): ‘And if you have come opposite to Hît, leave the Euphrates road and al-Anbâr and take your way to ‘Ain al-Tamr so that you may reach al-Kûfah.’