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Elias of Nasibin (Elias bar Shinaya);
Opus Chronologicum (1019) Syriac author
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Taken from: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1901
Year 393 AH
In 1003 Muhadhdhib al- Daula (the near independent ruler of the marshlands in Iraq who were once the scene of the Zanj revolt) sent a soldier of fortune named Abu�l-Abbas ibn Wasil to conquer Basra, he completed his task successfully, but then marched back and conquered the whole Batihah (marshlands). Abu�l-Abbas was beaten finally in 1007
In the Syriac text of the passage he is called (in the translation of Bathgen) az-Zanji (from east Africa)
(in the Tarikh al Islam he is called Abu�l-Ghanaim) (from Ghana)