2 Replies to ““Age of strain series”: the first written reference to the Jilfan strain (in Arabic): 1767 CE”
There’s a sliiiightly earlier English language reference, from a 1765 advert for Bell’s Grey Arabian, which has been reproduced by William Pick (1805, The Turf Register, p. 273). The horse was “of the right Jelfy Blood, the most valued Breed in all Arabia” and “out of BENY SUCKR’s own Stud”. He came with a hujjah, though the advertisement did not include it, and I think was imported by the same Mr Phillips (called in the advert “PHILIP JOHN, an Armenian”) who imported Arabians for the Duke of Northumberland.
Thank you. What is striking is how close the dates of the earliest mentions in Western written sources are to the earliest mentions in Arabic written sources. The 1767 date in Taj al-Aruss is also an upper bound. It took Zabidi 14 years to finish his dictionary, updating it from Firuzabadi’s earlier dictionary. We know he finished in 1767-8 CE (1181 Hijri) because he threw a party in Cairo which another writer attended.
There’s a sliiiightly earlier English language reference, from a 1765 advert for Bell’s Grey Arabian, which has been reproduced by William Pick (1805, The Turf Register, p. 273). The horse was “of the right Jelfy Blood, the most valued Breed in all Arabia” and “out of BENY SUCKR’s own Stud”. He came with a hujjah, though the advertisement did not include it, and I think was imported by the same Mr Phillips (called in the advert “PHILIP JOHN, an Armenian”) who imported Arabians for the Duke of Northumberland.
Thank you. What is striking is how close the dates of the earliest mentions in Western written sources are to the earliest mentions in Arabic written sources. The 1767 date in Taj al-Aruss is also an upper bound. It took Zabidi 14 years to finish his dictionary, updating it from Firuzabadi’s earlier dictionary. We know he finished in 1767-8 CE (1181 Hijri) because he threw a party in Cairo which another writer attended.