182 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



he received any assistance in writing his history was Khwajah 

 ^nhab-ud-Din , the great scholar and Munshi of the 'Ulama of 

 ^iya§-ud-Din's court, and that without his ungrudging help 

 he could never have completed so lengthy a work, or collected 

 so much authentic information within the short space of two 

 and a half years : — 



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Besides the help received from Minhaj, Sayfi says that he 

 drew upon certain works, viz. Tarikh-i-Jahan Kusha-i-Ju- 

 waym (c. ah. 650 = a.d. 1252) mentioned in connection with his 



tZ°^> fr ' e f J™** 11 of Nisjiapur by Tuli Khan, fol. 206 ; 

 rankh-i-Gazan G f Rashid-ud-Daulah ' (c. a.h. 710= a.d. 1310), 

 quoted in the account of the reconstruction of Herat on fol. 



Sayfi also refers to two other 



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Kh 



of tw ™ 7 P *u °o- the WOrk Sa y fi ref ers to two histories 

 n Lp!vrt T , h * first *>y ^t-ud-Din 'Abd-ur-Rahman Fami, a 

 whofnv °^ „ Izz -" d " D i n 'Uniar, .the ancestor of the Kurts, 

 Sim r*Ttn™ Und6r ? uMn G W-"d-Din Muhammad bin 



N&nih of R^ ^1 A>D : U f - 1193) ' ' The secondis the Kurt 

 NSmah 1 , FU f?T J1> Wh ° wrofce in the st yk <>f the S_hah 

 Sank F^S S'& 10 ° t = u A - D - 1300 ' and dedicated his book to 

 hot tifh^? t Dm K° f the Kurt raee - But » * hard to see 

 FW w t 6 6en ° f any material service ^ our author. 



WS nJf of /^ ™ tten earl y in ab °ut a.h. 600 = a.d. 1203, 

 while that of Fushanji is only a poetical account. 



A third history of Herat and of later date, entitled Rau- 

 dat-ul-Jannat fi Ausaf-i- Karat iy> j^ : oli W, ^ was 

 written by Mu'in Zamcjii ^ ^ in ' A H 897 = a.d. 1492. 



rieTof 3 %Zi C ° Pi ^ ? f , this WOrk are fairl V common in the libra- 

 press E er t °w e o and *** The Asiati ° S ° ciet y of B ^ aI al ° ne 



vol 'l D p ^r Han iS K'? a i*^ gUe ,° f * he Persian MSS. in the Brit. Mus.. 

 author' Raitd ud Din" K 1^' ™L?' p " ^ and ^veral others call this 

 in co^lf^^^f^^.-T is given as Rashid-ud-Daulah 



respectively called <1™^^ I £^^^ 



