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portant occurrences, and not paying much attention to chronological dates in noticing the particular month or year.

If our intention be to make researches concerning the history of those sovereigns who ruled in Arabia and Africa, we may consult the Arabic chronicles already mentioned; also the book entitled "Al âkud al 'lúlíet fí Táríkh ad'dowlet al resúlút;" 85 also the Beghíet al mustefid fi akhbár medínah Zabíd: "86 these two works relate to the history of Yemen (or Arabia Felix).

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But the "Kitáb al mukaffi al Makrízi" is a history of Misr (or Egypt). MUSTAFA EFENDI 88 likewise, in his "Táríkh," which comprises a general account of different Muselmán dynasties, has included those kings who reigned in Egypt.

And on the subject of those two holy cities, Mekkah Maazmeh 89 and Medinah Makarremeh,90

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العقود اللولية في تاريخ الدولة الرسولية بغية المستفيد في اخبار مدينة زبيد

.20 .See the note on MAkrist in p كتاب المقفي المقريزي

(اقتدي) or, perhaps, MUSTAFA AKTEDI مصطفي افندي

the last word being very ambiguously written.

89 &be to or Mekkah the highly honoured, or the great.

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.the venerable or revered city-مدينة مكرمة

different writers have composed a multiplicity of volumes.

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Now, respecting the kings of Rúm, who departed from this world before the family of OтHMÁN 92 assumed the government, I have never seen any particular book containing a detailed account. The annals, however, of this OTHMAN race have been written on an extensive plan; but works containing records of that family are extremely scarce in India. Among them may be noticed the chronicle or "Táríkh " entitled "Hesht Behisht," 93 ,"93 composed by MULLA EDRÍS ANDALísí.94 This book I have examined; it contains a detailed account of eight sovereigns of the OTHMAN dynasty, beginning with OTHMAN BEIG

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روم

By this name is here understood a great portion of those provinces which now constitute the Turkish empire westward of Persia; it has often a signification much more extensive.

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In the Catalogue of Sir William Ouseley's هشت بهشت 93

Oriental MSS. (No. 666), the "Táríkh Hesht Behisht " is described as a most valuable work on Turkish history, by BEDLÍSI. The name of this work implies the Eight Paradises.

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.or rather BEDList ملا ادريس اندليسي

immediately preceding.

See the note

GHÁZÍ,95 and ending with ILDERIM BAIAZID THÁ

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ΝΙ (or the Second).

Another work, also, we may consult for information respecting the OTHMAN princes; I allude to the Táríkh or history of Mekkah, written by MULLA KUTTUB AD' DÍN HANEFI,98 a chronicle which brings down the records of that dynasty to nearly the year one thousand of the hejrah,99 and is not by any means of rare occurrence in this country (India).

Likewise MUSTAFA EFENDI, 100 in his chronicle, has given a history of the OTHMAN family until the year one thousand of the same era,101 in the

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تاريخ مكة

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عثمان بيك غازي ایلدرم بايزيد ثاني

This must be the work quoted by ملا قطب الدين حنفي

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Burckhardt as "The History of the Mosque of Mekka, with which the history of the town is interwoven, called El Aalam hy aalam beled Allah el haram, in one volume quarto. The author was KOTTOB ED' DYN EL MEKKY, who held high offices at Mekka, and brings the history down to the year 990 of the hedjra." See Burckhardt's "Travels in Arabia" (Author's Introduction, p. xiv).

99 Or of the Christian era 1591; but the more exact date, mentioned by Burckhardt in the note immediately preceding (A. H. 990), corresponds to the year of Christ 1582.

100 See the note in page 29.

101 Or of Christ 1591.

manner partly of a detailed narrative, and partly

of an abridgment or summary.

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Of the MOGHUL sovereigns who have reigned in countries professing the religion of Islám (or the Muhammedan faith), illustrious princes, as well of the CHANGÍZIAN as of the GURKANIAN or TAIMÚRIAN branches, the history of each dynasty is amply recorded in books that circulate not unfrequently among us (in India).

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Thus the history of CHANGIZ KHAN, and of his descendants, until the arrival of HULAKÚ KHÁN3 in Persia, has been composed by KHUÁJEH ELLÁ ad' dín ottá mULK JUÍNI,* (the brother of KнuáJEH SHAMS AD' DÍN MUHAMMED,5) in his chronicle entitled the " Táríkh Jehán Kushái."6

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Next, as a sort of appendix or supplement to the 'Jehán Kushái," I may here notice the "Táríkh Wessáf," which copiously details the

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خواتین مغل

چه طبقه نبیله چنگیزیه و چه فرقه جليله كوركانيه تيموريه

خواجه علا الدين عطا ملك جويني

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هلاکو خان

خواجه شمس الدين محمد

,by تاریخ وصاف

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by ABDULLAH SHÍRÁZI, as appears from

the full title of the work, written in a beautiful copy which

تاريخ وصاف من تصنيف

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تصنيف مولانا عبد the editor has examined

الله شيرازي در ذکر سلطنت هلاکوخان و چنگیز خان

history of HULÁKÚ KHÁN, from that monarch's first entrance into Persia until the time of SULTAN ABÚ SÂÍD KHÁN.

We may also find in the work named "Jamiâ Rashidi," very ample accounts, historical and genealogical, of CHANGIZ KHAN, his descendants, and the chief Moghul princes and nobles.

Respecting those KHANS of the CHANGÍZIAN family 10 who reigned in the Dasht i Kibchák" and in Máwer al nahr, 12 I have never happened to see any distinct or particular work their history, however, may be collected separately from various chronicles that record the affairs of several Persian kings.

The Táríkh Rashidi," composed by MIRZÁ HAIDER DUGHLAT GURKAN,13 furnishes nothing more than a brief summary or compendious ac

From this valuable MS. some curious extracts are given in Sir W. Ouseley's "Travels," vol. 1. p. 170, &c.

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سلطان ابو صعید خان * جامع رشيدي خانان چنگيزي

An extensive region northward of the دشت قبچاك

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Caspian Sea, inhabited by a race of Easterns, Turks, or Tátárs. The extraordinary origin of this name is explained in SADIK ISFAHANI'S " Geographical Works," p. 1.

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12 Or Transoxiana. See the note on Irún and Túrán, p. 6. 13 This work, and its author, have been already mentioned in p. 9.

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