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NOTE XI. THE HOUSE OF BURHAN ,
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(6) Burhanu'd-Din Mahmiid ibn Taju'l-Islam Ahmad, a*uthor of
the Dhakhiratu'l-Fattiwd (also called adh-Dhakhiratu'l^Bnrhdfiiyyd)
mentioned by Hajji Khalifa.
(7-10) Burhanu'd-Din Muhammad Sadf-i-Jahan ibn Ahmad, brother
of the above; his two sons Maliku'l-Islam and 'Azizu'l-Islam, and another
brother, Iftikhar-i-Jahan. The rst of these four was practically King
of Bukhara and paid tribute to the Khita'is) as indicated by a passage
in an-Nasawi's Biography of Sultan Jalalu'd-Dfn Mankobirni 1 . Ijl
603/1206-7, while on his way to Mecca, he was received with great
respect at Baghdad, but on his return there, account of his behaviour
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towards the pilgrims, he incurred such unpopularity that he earned for
himself the nick-name of Sadr-i-Jahannam (the "Chief" or "President of
Hell"). In 6131-614/1316-17, when 'Ala'u'd-Dm Muhammad Khwarazmshah
set out on his campaign against the Caliph an-Nasir li-Dini'llah, as
a precautionary measure he deported these four persons (Burhanu'd-Din
Muhammad and his brother and two sons) from Bukhara to Khwarazm.
Two years later (in 616/1219), when Khwarazmshah's mother Turkan
IQiatiin decided to flee thence for fear of the Mongol advance, she put
aS four of them to death, together with other hostages resident at her
capital 2 .
(n) Sadr-i-Jahan Sayfu'd-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abdu'l-'Aziz (son of
No. 5), who is repeatedly mentioned as still living in 'Awfi's Lubdbu'l-
Albdb, which was written in 618/1221.
(12) Burhanu'l-Islam Taju'd-Din 'Umar ibn Mas'iid ibn Ahmad ibn
'Abdu'l-'Aziz ibn Maza (grandson of No. 3, nephew of Nos. 6, 7 and 8,
and cousin of Nos. 9 and 10). He was one of the teachers and masters
of 'Awfi, who makes mention of him also in the Lubdb (ed. Browne,
vol. i, pp. 169174).
(13) Nizamu'd-Din Muhammad, son of the above, also mentioned
by 'Awfi (i, 176), who spent some days with him at the town of AmA 3
ori the Oxus about 600/1203-4.
(14) Another Burhanu'd-Din (pedigree unspecified) is mentioned by
'Ala'u'd-Di'n 'Ata Malik-i-Juwayni in connection with the rebellion of
Tarabi in 636/1238-0^. ,
The latest historical reference to any member of this family occurs
in the To!rikh-i-Jahdn-drd of the Qadi Ahmad-i-Ghaffari, who states
that Uljaytd (Khuda-banda, reigned A.D. 1303-1316) was impelled to
embrace the Shi'a doctrine by his disgust at the unseemly altercations of
'two Sunni theologians of different schools, Khwaja 'Abdu'l-Malik the
Shafi'i, and Sadr-i-Jahan J of Bukhara the Hanafi. The title, place of
1 This ''passage is cited in the Persian notes, p. 118, fourth line from the end to
>p. 119, 1. 6. It occurs on pp. 23-4 of the edition of M. O. Houdas (Paris, 1891), and
on pp. 41-2 of his French translation (Paris, 1895).
2 Ax-Nasawi (ed. Houdas), p. 39 = pp. 66-7 of the French translation.
3 See Yaqut's Mu'jamu'l-Bulddn, vol. i, pp. 69-70, and G. le Strange's LandS of
the Eastern Caliphate, p. 434. The town is also called Amul by the Arabs, like the
better-known town of that name in Mazandaran.
4 See Mirza Muhammad's edition of the Tdrikh-i-Jahdn-gushdy, vol. .i, p. 88
(" E. J. W. Gibb Memorial " Series, xvi, i).
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