ABSTRACT

This book, written by Abu’l Kasim Obaidallah ibn Khordâdhbeh (see De Goeje’s Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, Leyden, 1889, xol. vi, p. 114), whose father was Governor of Tabaristan, contains the following reference to Jewish merchants, called ar-Rhâdaniya (Radanites).