446).

Rais’s functions are not entirely clear. According to c. IN. Bartold, “Rais was the first person of the city and a representative of his interests; Through him, the sovereign expressed his will to the inhabitants. It is very likely that the Raisa, at least the first time, were appointed from representatives of the noble local birth ”(I, with. 294). E. Ashtor-Straus, in the work of the city administration of medieval Syria, came to the conclusion that RAS is primarily the police chief and that therefore, former criminals who knew the criminal world of the city (AshTor-Strauss, 1956, r. 104). TO. The execution, which attracted geographically wider material, chose to speak more carefully and indicated that in Iran and Central Asia, Raisa Cities were from the local nobility and that this is probably their political influence on the cities. In his opinion, they rather resembled mayors (Caehen, 1958-1959, 1, with. 247; 2, p. 53). Our material does not even contain a hint of the identity of the position of Rais. and the chief of the police (although, as we will see next, control over the order in the city was under the jurisdiction of Raisa), but there are unambiguous evidence of the opposite kind. In the «Roman about Abu Muslim» there is such an episode: after one of the first attacks of Abu Muslim on supporters. Seyyar calls Suleiman B. Caesira and instructs him, as Raisa, to catch a criminal, but Suleiman objects that he is not a Darug of the city and cannot do this (Tartushi, L, 396). Obviously the late term «Daruga» undoubtedly corresponds to the Domongol «Shikhne». The following says that the searches were entrusted to Shikhne Merva (ibid. 446). And in other cases, either Shikhne or the head of the night guard (ibid. 976, 350).