"According to Ibn al-Athir, after an attack on the "Khazars", Fadlun was returning to his own country, when the "Khazars" fell upon him unexpectedly and killed more than 10,000 of his own troops. Those "Khazars" recovered the booty which Fadlun had taken from them and captured the equipmnent of the Muslims. Polak notes that this seems to indicate that these "Khazars" were still non-Muslims; however Barthold, (who identified this Fadlun as Fadl ibn Muhammad of the Saddadid dynasty, who ruled Gandjah), argued that here Georgians or Abkhazians were probably meant, and this opinion was ... " (Shapira 2007:305-6)
"the tribal territory of the Kurds in the Middle Ages andespecially during the five first centuries of Islam, extended from Dvîn (south of thelake Sevan) to Mosul, and from Hamadân to the Djezireh" (James 2007)References
James, B., 2007, The tribal territory of the Kurds through Arabic medieval historiography Boris James, url: http://www.academia.edu/181102/The_tribal_territory_of_the_Kurds_through_Arabic_medieval_historiography
Shapira, D.Y.A., 2007, Iranian sources on the Khazars, in The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Part 8, Volume 17, edited by Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas, published by Brill: Leiden, Nederlands.
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