The Chronicles Of The Pathan Kings Of Dehli

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230135823
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of the Pathán Kings of Dehli; Illustrated by Coins, Inscriptions, and Other Antiquarian Remains written by Edward Thomas and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...whose designation appears on the Indian coins minted in 741, 742, and 743 A.h.; while the later periods are marked by that of his son, Al Hakim b'amr illah Abu al Abbas Ahmad. The following is a list of the earlier Egyptian Khalifs, taken from Abul Faraj. There is a conflict of testimony as to the accuracy of the succession in some instances, and still more uncertainty in regard to the precise dates of accession, etc.2 In short, their own obscurity extended to their history;3 but as the authoritative names are the chief matter of 1 This is a very odd phase of Muhammad bin Tughlak's progressive thought. So little occasion does there seem to have been, at the moment, for any such disturbing idea, as far as the associations of proximate kingdoms extended, that the Sultan had to examine all sorts of stray travellers to discover where a scion of the old house could be found, as Zla Barni, a contemporary Indian biographer, says--Calcutta text, p. iJLi, J jO ji, jwLc Jl j Though all this feeling may well have arisen out of new and more advanced studies of his own religion, or descriptions by the Western visitors at his own Court of the bye-gone glories of the supreme Pontiffs of the Muslim world, who had more or less swayed the destinies of the East for five centuries, and whose extermination was so intimately associated with one of India's perpetual grievances, the success of the Mughals, who were ever threatening the gates of Dehli. Later, in point of time, Muhammad bin Tughlak secured as a visitor at his own Court a scion of the line of Abbas, in the person of Ghias-ud-din Muhammad, a son of a greai-grandton of the Khalif of Baghdad, Al Muttantir biltah, and he seems almost to have regretted his hasty adhesion to the Egyptian branch, for, ...