A Reflection of the Inscriptions of Darius the Great in Kitab al-Boldan Ibn al-Fakih al-Hamadani

The Iranian geographer Abū ʻAbd-Allāh Ahmad b. Moḥammad b. Esḥāq b. Ebrāhīm Hamadānī, Ebn al-Faqīh Hamadānī, (ca 250-330 Hegira) described two inscriptions in Alvand Mount in Hamadān in his precious book “Aḵbār al-boldān”, probably written about 290 Hegira. He presented the translation of this inscriptions in his book, but his translation has no resemblance with the texts of the inscriptions of Darius the Great and Xerxes in Alvand Mount and obviously it is a reflection of the contents of the inscriptions of Darius the Great in Bīsotūn Mount and of the Tomb-Inscription of Darius in Naghsh-i Rustam. This study aims at answering these questions: why did the Hamadānīan people, still in third century of Hegira, among all the Achaemenid inscriptions just remember the reflection of the inscriptions of Bīsotūn and the Tomb-Inscription of Darius in Naghsh-i Rustam? And therefore why did Ebn al-Faqīh who talked to the native people, present a reflection of Darius the Great’s inscriptions of Bīsotūn and Naghsh-i Rustam as the translation of the inscriptions of Alvand Mount?