Tabakat-i-nasiri; a general history of the Muhammadan dynastics of Asia, including Hindustan, from A.H. 194 (810 A.D.) to A.H. 658 (1260 A.D.) and ... of the infidel Mughals into Islam Volume 1

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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... II. SULTAN-UL-A'ZAM3, MU'IZZ-UD-DUNYA WA UD-DIN, ABG-L-MUZAFFAR, MUHAMMAD, SON OF BAHA-UD-DIN, SAM, KASIM-I-AMIR-UL-MUMINlN. Trustworthy narrators have related after this manner, that, when Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Husain, Jahan-soz, was removed from the habitation of the world, and Sultan Saif-ud-Din, Muhammad, his son, ascended the throne of Ghur, he commanded, that both the Sultans Ghiyas-udDin, Muhammad, and Mu'izz-ud-Din5, Muhammad, sons an audience, and having him basely assassinated; flaying a minister alive; digging up the bones of the dead; massacring women and children, and burning a city in a drunken fit, and mixing the blood of Sayyids with earth to make mortar, all these, on the part of a Ghuri, are mildness, amiability, beneficence, greatness, and the like. Fanakati says no less than 70,000 persons were massacred, on this occasion, in Ghaznin alone. 3 Some copies of the text, the idiom of which differs considerably here, have Sultan-i-Ghazi; and most copies leave out the Kasim, &c. His titles given at the end of his reign which see are altogether different. Between the putting to death of Saif-ud-Din, Siiri, and the establishment of Mu'izz-ud-Dfn at Ghaznin as his elder brother and sovereign's lieutenant, a period of no less than twenty-six years elapsed, but, as our author gives no dates, the uninitiated reader would imagine that Mu'izz-ud-Din succeeded close upon Saif-ud-Din, Surl. In reality, Mu'izz-ud-Din is the first of the Ghvirian dynasty of Ghaznin. 4 Sultans subsequently. 6 This personage is incorrectly styled by the impossible title of Skahdbu-ddin, Shahab-ood-Deen, and even Shabudin. Shihab-ud-Din, which is Arabic, was certainly his title before his brother succeeded to the sovereignty of Ghur. and his brother's was...