Khaqani: (One of his Poems) (d 1190) (Tabriz)
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Taken from: Loghatnaameh Dehkhoda
He compares China and Zanzibar as the opposites on both sides of the world.
Taken from: Who is Maha-Raja of Persian Texts by Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
(About First Maharaja of India to establish a War Fleet in about 850 and his successors)
He discrowned Mah-Raja of Zang (1) and plunder was portion of Tamghach-Khan (2).
Khaqani's statue in the Khaqani Park, Tabriz
Taken from: A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry; By Annemarie Schimmel
(from his Diwan) The elephant’s teeth which are
taken out immediately after its death and chiselled by a deft hand into elephants and kings for chess.
(1) He gives an interesting (but late) remark on the wars of the Austronesian (Madagascar) part of Africa.
The complete list of authors who mention expeditions of the Austronesians against East Africa: Jahiz (d.869) Al-Fakhar al-Sudan p217; and Buzurg (955): Sailors tale 117; Abu Imran Musa ibn Rabah al-Awsi al-Sirafi: Al-sahih min ahbar al-bihar wa-aga’ibiha (978); Hudud Al-'Alam (The Limits of The World) (982); and Kitab Ghara'ib al-funun wa-mulah al-'uyun (1050AD); and Ishaq b. al-Hasan b. Abi'l-Husayn al-Zayyat (d1058); and Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi (1066); Khaqani: (d 1190). ALL THE FOLLOWING CHINESE SOURCES SPEAK ABOUT SELLING SLAVES BY THE PEOPLE FROM MADAGASCAR: Ch'en Yuan-Ching (late12 century); Chao Ju-Kua (1226); Chou Chih-Chung (1366); Ning Xian Wang (1430); Wang Khi (1607).
(2) Tamghach-Khan: was a Karakhanid ruler in Transoxiana from 1038 to 1068.