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Arif Ali: Danismendname,

(The story of Melik Danismend) (1360)

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The Danismendname; The book of Danismend is a fourteenth-century Anatolian Turkish religious-heroic narrative that celebrates the exploits of the legendary champion Melik Danismend Gazi of the Byzantine-Turkish -Crusaders wars. In it a poem with a poetic rendering of the night. It teaches us that Zanzibar was known around 1360 in central Anatolia.

Taken from: La geste de Melik Dānişmend: étude critique du Dānişmendnāme, Vol 2

By Irène Mélikoff.

The ebony throne is being put up

The Zanzibar rule takes over the day

That night they sleep without sorrow

And everybody is confident and at ease

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He kept it because of the Zengi

The Maghribi was hidden until the day.