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Нов съм в клуба, но все пак мисля да се престраша да пусна англисйкия превод на един арабски текст, който може да има отношение по въпроса:

"In the city of Aleppo, I met a large number of persons called Bashkirs, with reddish hair and redish faces. They were studying law according to the shool of Abu Hanifah (God be well pleased with!) I asked one of them who seemed to be an intelligent fellow for information concerning their country and their condition. He told me, "Our country is situated on the other side of Constatinople, in a kingdom of a people of the Franks called Hungarians.
"We are Muslims, subjectes of their king, and live on the border of his territory, occupying about thirty villages, which are almost like small towns. But the king of the Hungarians does not allow us to build walls around any of them. lest we should revolt against him. We are situated in the midst of Christian countries, having the land of Slavs on the north, on the south that of the Pope (..........), on the west, Andalusia; on the east, the land of the Greeks, Constantinople and its provinces." He added, "our language is the language of the Franks, we dress after their fashion, we serve with them in the army, and we join them in attacking all their enemies, because they only go to war with enemies of Islam.
I then asked them him how it was they had adopted Islam in spite of their dwelling in the midts of unbelievers. He answered, "I have heard several of our fore-fathers say that a long time ago seven Muslims came from Bulgaria and settled among us. In kindly fashion they they pointed out to us our errors and directed us into the right way, the faith of Islam......

Абстракта е от Mu'jam al-buldan на Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179-1229).