CHAPTER XV
al-Jarâjimah
The treaty with al-Jarâjimah. I am informed by certain sheikhs from Antioch that al-Jarâjimah[1] were the inhabitants of a town called al-Jurjûmah[2] lying between Baîyâs and Bûḳa on mount al-Lukâm [Amanus] near Maʿdin az-Zâj [vitriol pit]. While the Greeks held the authority over Syria and Antioch, the Jarâjimah were under the rule of the patrician and governor of Antioch. When abu-ʿUbaidah came and reduced Antioch, they confined themselves to their city and, in their anxiety to save their lives, they tried to go and join the Greeks. The Moslems took no note of them, nor did any one call their attention to them. When later the people of Antioch violated their covenant and acted treacherously, abu-ʿUbaidah sent and conquered Antioch once more, after which he made Ḥabîb ibn-Maslamah-l-Fihri its governor. Ḥabîb attacked al-Jurjûmah, whose people did not resist but immediately sought for peace and capitulation. Terms were made providing that al-Jarâjimah would act as helpers to the Moslems, and as spies and frontier garrison in Mount al-Lukâm. On the other hand it was stipulated that they pay no tax, and that they keep for themselves the booty[3] they take from the enemy in case they fight with the Moslems. In these terms were in-
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