{"book":"adl1181","page":65,"text":"to teach the Islamic Laws. At the time of the victory of Kabul, the third Caliph of Islam was murdered and in the meanwhile king Aaraj also died, and King Jaipal refused to recognise Islam. Armies were sent many times, but without result. In the year 79 A. H. Abdullah bin Abubaker, governor of Siestan, collected a big army and came to reconquer Kabul. The Kings of Kabul at that time had increased their power a little. The Arab army in this battle, which was one of the most severe, came face to face with the brave people of Kabul and many were martyred or taken prisoner. This defeat caused a heavy loss to the Muslim army. The surviving Muslims paid seven hundred thousand Dinars as war reparation to free themselves from the hands of the Kabul Shahan. After these events the kings of Kabul again repaired and fortified the strong fortifications of the city, which had become broken. This fortified wall of Kabul, the remnants of which can still be seen to-day, on the mountains of Sher-Derwaza and the Asmai, was first built by the Kabul Shahan. When the pressure of the Hiatalah on one side and of the Sasanis on the other forced them to come out of Bactria and take refuge in the midst of\n\n- 7 -","chars":1204,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00065.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/65","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/65","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1181/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1181_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}