This Seems To Me
Geographically And Otherwise Quite Inadmissible.
[2] The term Arkaiun, or Arkaun, in this sense, occurs in the Armenian
History of Stephen Orpelian, quoted by St. Martin.
The author of the
Tarikh Jahan Kushai, cited by D'Ohsson, says that Christians were
called by the Mongols Arkaun. When Hulaku invested Baghdad we are
told that he sent a letter to the Judges, Shaikhs, Doctors and
Arkauns, promising to spare such as should act peaceably. And in the
subsequent sack we hear that no houses were spared except those of a
few Arkauns and foreigners. In Rashiduddin's account of the Council
of State at Peking, we are told that the four Fanchan, or Ministers
of the Second Class, were taken from the four nations of Tajiks,
Cathayans, Uighurs, and Arkaun. Sabadin Arkaun was the name of one
of the Envoys sent by Arghun Khan of Persia to the Pope in 1288.
Traces of the name appear also in Chinese documents of the Mongol era,
as denoting some religious body. Some of these have been quoted by
Mr. Wylie; but I have seen no notice taken of a very curious extract
given by Visdelou. This states that Kublai in 1289 established a Board
of nineteen chief officers to have surveillance of the affairs of the
Religion of the Cross, of the Marha, the Siliepan, and the
Yelikhawen. This Board was raised to a higher rank in 1315: and at
that time 72 minor courts presiding over the religion of the
Yelikhawen existed under its supervision.
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