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NOTES ON THE THIRD DISCOURSE } 127<br />
(2) The Td rikh-i-Jahdn-drd of the QadiAhmad-i-GharTari has a short<br />
chapter on this dynasty 1<br />
, which, though it adds little to the particulars<br />
given by the above-mentioned historians, has the advantage of gathering<br />
the details under one head and giving them a connected arrangement.<br />
(3) A rare general history in Persian, of unknown authorship, entitled<br />
on this<br />
*, Majma'iSt'Tawdrfkh*, contains a chapter of, seven large pages<br />
dynasty, here called "the House of Afrasiyab."<br />
(4) A long note by Major H. G. Raverty on pp. 900-911 of his<br />
Engjish translation of the Tabaqdt-i-Ndsiri (vol. ii, London, 1881).<br />
(5) An article by Sir Henry Howorth on the Afrdsiydbi Tm'ks in the<br />
J.R.A.S. for 1898, pp. 467-502. For this excellent article he obtained<br />
new materials f?om a Turk! MS.'from Eastern Turkistan entitled Tadhkirai-Bnghrd<br />
Khan.<br />
(6) Scattered references in such special histories as,'Utbi's Tdrikh-i-<br />
Yamini, \heTdrikh-i-Bayhaqi, Narshakhi's TJrikh-i-Bukhara, 'Imadu'd-<br />
Qfn's and Abu Bakr ar-Rawandi's histories of the Saljtiqs, the Tdrikhi^/ahdngushdy<br />
of Juwayni, 'Awfi's Lubdbu'l-Albdb and JawdnaMl-<br />
Hikdydt, the Tabaqdt-i-Ndsiri, and this book, etc., the history of this<br />
dynasty being intermixed to some extent with that of the Ghaznawis,<br />
Saljdqs and Khwarazmshahs.<br />
(7) The verses of certain contemporary poets who were their panegyrists,<br />
such as Rashidi and Siizani of Samarqand, Mukhtari of Ghazna,<br />
Radiyyu'd-Din of Nishaptir, 'Am'aq of Bukhara, Shams-i-Tabasi, etc.<br />
In none of these books, however, except 'Awfi's Lubdb,<br />
made of Qilij Tamghaj Khan Ibrahim, the last ruler but one of the<br />
is mention<br />
dynasty. He was a great patron of poetry and learning. Radiyyu'd-Dm,<br />
the poet just mentioned, has especially celebrated his generosity to men<br />
of letters, and several notable prose works were dedicated to him, amongst<br />
others the Sindibdd-ndma* &n& the A'rddu r-Riydsatfi AghradCs-Siydsat*<br />
of Baha'u'd-Din az-Zahiri of Samarqand, and another work by the same<br />
author entitled Sam (<br />
u'z-%ahirfi Jam'i'z-Zahir 5 .<br />
j<br />
Note J^XIII. Five notable Astronomers.<br />
(Text, pp. 54-5; Persian notes, pp. 193-206.)<br />
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (or Bertini<br />
or Bayrurii} was born in a suburb or outer district (biruti) of Khwarazm<br />
1 Or. 141 of the British Museum, ff. I32 a -i34 b .<br />
2<br />
Supf/1. Persan 1331 in the Bibl. Nationale of Paris, ff. 13^-136*.<br />
' 3 See p. 125 supra.<br />
4 See Hajji Khalifa, s.v., and 'Awfi's Lubdb, i, 91. There is a MS. of the work in<br />
the Lejfrlen Library.<br />
5 See H. Kh., s.v., and the Lubdb, i, 91.<br />
*' Sachau quotes the Ansdb of as-Sam'ani in favour of this latter pronunciation, but<br />
in the'facsimile of this work published by the " E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" (vol. xx,<br />
f. 98 b ) the passage in question has bfl-kasri (with the i vowel) instead of bfl-fathi<br />
(with the a vowel).<br />
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