(7) The existing dynastic houses were everywhere maintained, as the representatives of the conquered peoples and vehicle of the civil administration. The actual administrative and financial authority in their territories, however, passed to the Wāli, or agent of the Arab governor of Khurāsān[73].
Notes
[41] Chav. Doc. 42, 282 f.: Marquart Chronologie 15: Tabarī II. 1078, 1080.
[42] As was suggested by Prof. Houtsma, Gotting. Gelehrt. Anz., 1899, 386-7.
[43] Suggested readings in Barthold, Turkestan, p. 71 n. 5, and p. 76.
[44] Tab. 1184 f., 1195: Chav. Doc. 172: Hamadhānī, Kitāb al-Buldān (Bibl. Geog. Arab. V) 209. 7: cf. Tab. 1874.
[45] Narshakhī 8, 15, 30, 37, 44: Tab. 1199. 1: Yaʿqūbī Hist. II. 342. 9. Cf. Marquart, Chronologie 63 and Barthold, Arab. Quellen 7.
[46] Hamāsa, ed. Freytag, I. 349.
[47] Narshakhī 8. 15.
[48] Tab. 1207. 16: cf. Yaʿqūbī loc. cit. On the Arab method of crucifixion, Nöldeke Z.D.M.G. LVI (1902) 433; cf. Tab. 1691 and Dīnawarī 336. 18.