A Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian Languages, Preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandJ.W. Parker & son, 1854 - 160 pages |
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Abbás Abú ad-Daulah Ádil Afgháns Ahmad Akbar Al-Musta'sim Alá Alí Allah Amír Arabic at-Tawáríkh Aurangzíb Baní Bart Bég Ben Lais Book Briggs Buwaihides Changíz Khán chapters comprising death in A.H. descendants died in A.H. Dín dynasty East India House edition Emperor extracts Fakhr Fifteen lines Firishtah Foll Ghaznavides Ghúrides Gujarát Habib Háj Hasan Hasan Buzurg Húlákú Khán Husain Ibráhím Imáms infrà Isma'íl Jahángír Jalál ad-Dín Jámi Kaiánians Khalf Khalifahs Khusrú Kings of Dihlí Kings of Khárizm Kings of Persia Kirmán Kutb Maásir Mahmúd Malcolm Malet Malik Mázandarán memoirs Mír Mirkhond Mírzá Mongol empire Mongols Muzaffarides Námah Násir ad-Dín Naskh Nasta'lík Nizám origin portion preface Prophets RAUZAT reign rulers Saljúks Sámánides Sásánians Sayyid Sháh Shah Jahán Shaikh Sharaf Silvestre de Sacy Sir Henry Elliot successors Sulaimán Sultán Táhir Táríkh-i Tímúr translation Tughril written in Nasta❜lík written in Shikastah روضة الصفاء نامه
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Page 125 - ... for the same reason. The Mughal Emperor professed as the cause of his prohibition that the cultivation of inward piety was preferable to the ostentatious display of his achievements. Elphinstone observes of this strange prohibition that the Emperor not only discontinued the- regular annals of the empire, which had before been kept by a regular historiographer, but so effectually put a stop to all records of his transactions, that from the eleventh year of his reign the course of events can only...
Page 97 - Ali Yazdi, and our author was present at the conference. Two years afterwards he became attached to the person of the Sultan Abu Sa'id, who treated him with the greatest honour; and in AH 863 (AD 1458), when Sultan Husain Bahadur undertook an expedition into Jurjan, our author, who had been sent on a mission into that part of the country, had an opportunity of witnessing most of the events of the war.
Page 123 - He was sent to join his father in Kashmir while he was governor there. He was afterwards daroghd-i ddgh, and subsequently emp'oyed in a more congenial office in the Imperial Library. "He inherited his father's talents and good qualities, and is said even to have surpassed him in ability. He was witty and of agreeable manners, and was one of the intimate friends of Shah Jahan. Latterly he retired from office, and settled in Kashmir, where he died in AH 1077 (AD 1666). In addition to the history of...
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Page 110 - His narrative is florid, feeble and indistinct, overloaded with commonplace reflections and pious effusions, generally ending in a compliment to his patron. 'Every event that had a tendency to take from his goodness, wisdom, or power, is passed over or mis-stated, and a uniform strain of panegyric and triumph is kept up, which disgusts the reader with the author, and almost with the hero. Amidst these unmeaning flourishes, the real merits of Akbar disappear, and it is from other authors that we learn...
Page 116 - ... given by Muhammad Hadi, the editor, are, I think, decisive as to the genuineness of the larger work. He distinctly states that Jahangir himself wrote the history of eighteen years of his reign, and that he, Muhammad Hadi, continued it from various trustworthy sources to the time of the Emperor's death. I have called it the second edition, since it was edited after the author's death, but it possibly, nay was probably, prepared as it at present exists, by the Emperor himself. That the shorter...
Page 98 - Quatremere passes the most favourable judgment as to the merits of the work, saying, that it is incontestably one of the most curious and veracious histories that have been written in any of the Eastern languages.] l EXTRACTS.
Page 107 - It is written," says General Briggs, " in the style of private memoirs, the most useful and engaging shape which history can assume ; nor, excepting in the peculiarities which belong to the Muhammadan character and creed, do we perceive throughout its pages any inferiority to the historical memoirs of Europe. The Due de Sully, Lord Clarendon or Bishop Burnet need not have been ashamed to be the authors of such a production...
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