[108] Tab. 1956. 17; 1966.10; 1997 ff. (this passage is unfortunately defective and has been supplemented by the editor from Ibn al-Athīr); 1970. 9. The popularity of Nasr is demonstrated also by the growth of a tradition round his name. This appears in Tabarī somewhat unobtrusively in isolated passages, unfortunately without quotation of Madāʾinī’s authorities. According to the “Fihrist” (103. 12) Madāʾinī wrote two books on the administrations of Asad b. ʿAbdullah and Nasr b. Sayyār, a fact which confirms the special importance of these two governors in the history of Khurāsān. Probably Asad was more popular with the dihqāns and Nasr with the people.
[109] Chav., Doc. 168: cf. Marquart, Ērānshahr 303.
[110] Kitāb Baghdād, Band VI ed. H. Keller, p. 8. 12.
[111] Chav., Doc. 297 f.; Wieger, Textes Historiques 1647.
[112] Tab. III. 79 f.: Narsh. 8 fin.: Chav., Doc. 140, Notes Addit. 86 and 91.
[113] Wieger 1684 ff.: Chav., Doc. 158 n. 4 and 298 f. Cf. my article “Chinese records of the Arabs in Central Asia” in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, II. 618 f.
[114] A full account of these risings is given by Prof. E. G. Browne in “Literary History of Persia” vol. I, 308 ff.