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I^OTES ON THE SECOND DISCOURSE
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the deatfi of Qutulmush, who therefore obviously could not have rebelled
against him. Secondly, Qutulmush was not the* son-in-law of Sultan
Muhammad, 'but the first cousin of his great-grandfather. Thirdly, the
title of Qutulmush was Shihabru'd-Dawla, riot Shihabu'd-Din. Fourthly,
he did not bear the name Alp Ghazi. Fifthly, the battle in which he
was killed was near Ray, not Ramadan,*' &nd sixthly, it took place
nearly a century before Nizami of Samarqand wrote the Chahdr Maqdla.
We are driven to suppose that in this passage the original text has
tfeen tampered with. The real Alp Ghazi was the nephew of Sultan
Ghiyathu'd-Din Muhammad of Ghtir, and fell in battle with Sultan
Muhammad Khwarazmsnah near Herat in A.H. 600 (A.D. 1203-4),
fifty years after the Chahdr Maqdla was written. There were two
kings called Ghiyathu'd-Din Muhammad, the one of Ghiir, mentioned
immediately above, who died in A.H. 599 (A.D. 1202-3) and was actually
related to the real Alp Ghazi and the ;
,other the grandson of Alp Arslan
the Saljiiq, to v^hom this anecdote refers, and who died in, A.H. 511
(A.D. 1117-8).
Note XXII. The Khaqani, Khani or Afrasiyabi Kings.
(Text, p. 46; Persian notes, pp. 184-189.)
This Turkish Muslim dynasty, also called Ilak-Khani, ruled for
nearly 230 years (A.H. 380-609 = A.D. 990-1212) over Transoxiana,
supplanting the Samanid and succumbing to the Khwarazmshahi power.
They were sometimes practically independent, while at other times they
paid tribute to the Saljiiqs, Qara-Khita'is or Khwarazmshahs. i Tbeir
history is confused and obscure, nor is it precisely known when their
power arose or when they embraced Islam. Hariin ibn Sulayman,
better known as Bughra Khan flak, and entitled Shihabu'd-Dawla,
conquered Bukhara in A.H. 383 (A.D. 993), and is the first of the
His lieutenant Shamsu'd-Dawla Nasr ibn
dynasty mentioned in history.
'AH ibn Miisa ibn Sutuq, better known as Ilak Khan, again subdued
Bukhara in A.H. 389 (A.D. 999) and finally extinguished the Samanid
power in Transoxiana. The last of the line was Nusratu'd-Din Qilij
Arslan Khaqan 'Uthman ibn Qilij Tamghaj Khan Ibrahim, who was
killed in A.H. 609 (A.D. 1212-3) by Sultan 'Al?Vd-Din Muhammad
Khwarazmshah.
The first historian of this dynasty appears to have been the Imam
Sharafu'z-Zaman Majdu'd-Din Muhammad ibn 'Adnan as-Suikhakati,
uncle of Niiru'd-Dm Muhammad 'Awfi, the author of the often-quoted
Lubdbu'l-Albdb and of the vast collection of anecdotes entitled Jawdmi'dl-*
Hikdydt wa Lawdmi'u'r-Riwdydt. This history, dedicated to Sultan
Qilij Tamghaj Khan, the last ruler but one of the dynasty, is mentioned
by Hajji Khalifa, and 'Awfi quotes from it in the seventeenth chapter
of the fourth part of his I- Jawdmi'tf Hikdydt, composed about A.H. 630'
(A.D. 1232-3). Except for this quotation (of which the text is cited on
pp 185-6 of the Persian notes) this work appears to be entirely lost.
The chief extant sources of information about them are as follows :
(i) Scattered references in such Arabic general histories as Ibnu'l-
Athir and Ib,n Khaldiin.