[Footnote 92: Al Wakidi had likewise written a history of
the conquest of Diarbekir, or Mesopotamia, (Ockley, at the
end of the iid vol.,) which our interpreters do not appear
to have seen. The Chronicle of Dionysius of Telmar, the
Jacobite patriarch, records the taking of Edessa A.D. 637,
and of Dara A.D. 641, (Asseman. Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p.
103;) and the attentive may glean some doubtful information
from the Chronography of Theophanes, (p. 285 - 287.) Most of
the towns of Mesopotamia yielded by surrender, (Abulpharag.
p. 112.)
Note: It has been published in Arabic by M. Ewald St.
Martin, vol. xi p 248; but its authenticity is doubted. -
M.]