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ZAIN AL-DIN KARAPJA ( + 780).

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788800.
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Nasir al-DIn Mehemmed: 'All, Kiinh).

1. Khalll 780788.

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4. 'Isa
5. 'OthmSn
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(about
788:
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Kunh).
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a. 819 sent to Mehemmed I.: Feridun,
i. 157)-

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2. Hamza + 840 H. (Sidjill-i 'OthmSnl).
daughter of Kadi Burh&n
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Khatun, mar872-877.
lan 858870.
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ried Mehem877-884;
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to Constantimed II. (853).
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taken prisoner
2. Dlwane Weand blinded
led (a. 928
by 'Ala' al-Dawla:
executed with two
'All).
other brothers:
'AH).
I. Shahrokh (Lord of 2. SuleimSnbeg (Lord 3. 'A'isjie KhSturi (mar- 4. BeglukhatQn (sought
as wife by Shah
ried Bayazld II.
of Bozokli; a. slain
Kirshehri a. 905: Sa'd
IsmS'll).
before 1467).
al-Din, ii. 63 and 105). by 'Allbeg 920: Sa'd
al-DIn, ii. 287).
2. 'Alibcg (about 940;
1. Mehemmed Khan
-f- in PSsin).
( + about 977).
KarakhSn ('All, FusUl
etc., fol. 102).
Dja'far Beg.
(SandjSkbeg of Corum, about 1000 H. in Kaisartye, 'All, Ftisul etc. fol., 102).
Note: A place cannot be found for the Dhu '1-Kadr Oghlu Hasanbeg, who is mentioned about
830 H. in the history of Yttrgei Pasha (cf. v. Hammer, op. cit., i. 426 et seq.) in Leuncl., Hist., 538
arid 'AahikpashazSde (p. 82). That the ShShsuwSr Paslja, -4- 997 H., so often mentioned in Hungarian history, was descended from the Dhu '1-Kadr Oghlu, has been assumed by v. Hammer, op.
cit., ii. 673 without good reason.
'
(J. H. MORDTMANN.)
EHU KAR, the name of a stream in'the Thus arose the popular romance of the Kitab
land of the tribe of Bakr b. Ws'il [q. v., Harb Bant Shaiban ma'a Kisra Anusliirwan,
p. 604] between Wasit and Kara. A battle bears (printed, Bombay, 1305).
Bibliography: Tabarl, Annates, i. 1015its name which was fought between this Arab
1016; 10281037; Ibn 'Abd Rabbihi, al-'Ikd
tribe and the Persians in which the latter were
al-farid (Bulak 1302), iii. 115119; al-Bakri,
defeated. It is one of the best known and most
celebrated of the Aiyam al-'Arab [q. v., p. 218]. Geogr. Wbrterb,, ed. by Ferd. Wustenfeld
(Gottingen 1877), ii. 723-724; MaidSnl, Madjina'
Tradition varies as to the date of the battle. Acal-Amthfll (Cairo 1284), ii. 325 cf. G. W.
cording to some it took place on the day the
Freytag, Arabum Proverbia (Bonn 1843), iii.
Prophet was born, according to rnost authorities
557 > Yakut (ed. Wustenfeld), iv. 1012;
however it was not fought till after the battle of
Mittwoch,. Proelia Arabum Paganorum
Badr [q. v., p. 559] and Muhammad is related to
(Diss. Berlin 1899), p.. 8. (E. MITTWOCH.)
have said of it "the day was the first day the
DHU 'L-KARNAIN, the "two-horned", a
Arabs had won their rights from the Persians and
through me they have been victorious". In many name always given to the individuals cited below,
accounts two battles of Dhn KSr are distinguished. more particularly to the third. The two horns go
The battle is sometimes also called after other back to an old mythological idea. Naram-Sin was
places near Dhu KSr, at which there was also for example represented as Adad with 2 horns
fighting. The old accounts of the Yawm DJn(on the stele of Susa; cf. Fouilles aSuse, i. pi. x.);
Kar gradually became much elaborated with new The two horns- of Jupiter Ammon are well known;
material just as happened with the accounts In Arabic, the name Dhu '1-Karnain, the true
of the battles between the Bakr and the Taghlib. meaning of which was not known, to the Arabs
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