1892.] 
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“ Gickers,” u Ghukkurs “ Gahhhars ” and the like). Taj-ud-Din, I-yal- 
duz, was his favourite Mam-luk, and held the government of Ghaz-nih 
and its dependencies ; and it was always intended by his sovereign, who 
had no son, and but one daughter, that he should succeed him on the 
throne of Grhaz-nih.* After his death, Sultan Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, 
is said to have coined his money with the name of the late Sultan thereon, 
in which he styled himself, “ the servant and slave of the Martyred 
Sultan ”.f Both this Turk slave, as well as his Tajzik sovereign, like 
others before and after them, have been turned into “ Pat tins” or 
Af gh ans, and this ridiculous term is still applied to Turks, Tajziks, 
Jats, Sayyids, etc., as well as Af gh ans, after it was shown to be 
wrong and mis-applied, by Elliot in his work a long time ago, as well 
as by myself. Sultan Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, was the first of the Turk 
Mam-luks who succeeded to sovereign power after his Shansabani Tajzik 
sovereign was assassinated. 
No. 139. Coin of Malik Tughan Shah. Tughan Shah was the 
second of the Mu’ayyidiali Maliks of Nishapur and its dependencies. 
His father was one of the Turk slaves of Sultan Sanjar, who was entitled 
Mu’ayyid-ud-Din, and he was the Sultan’s X’inah-dar, or Mirror-bearer, 
hence he is generally styled Mu’ayyid-i-A’inah-dar. When Sultan Sanjar 
raised several slaves to rule over the great provinces of his empire, 
Mu’ayyid-ud-Din was made ruler of the Nishapur territory. After the 
Sultan’s captivity with the Ghuzz Turks, and his subsequent release and 
death, Mu’ayyid-ud-Din pretended to pay obedience to the late Sultan’s 
nephew, Sultan Rukn-ud-Din, Mahmud, son of Muhammad Khan, son of 
the Bughra Khan, who had married Sultan Sanjar’s sister, and who had 
been set up over Mawara-un-Nalir and part of Khurasan, but Mu’ayyid- 
ud-Din subsequently seized him in the fifth year of his stormy reign, and 
put out his eyes, after which he himself assumed sovereignty over Nisha¬ 
pur and parts adjacent; and his sway extended for a time from Rai to 
Hirat. 
He subsequently joined Sultan Shah ( Sultan Shah is his name, not 
a title), who had rebelled against his brother, the Sultan, Abu-l-Muzaffar- 
i-Takish Khan, the Khwarazm Shah, and was taken captive in battle by 
the Sultan and put to death in 570 H. (1174-75 A. D.) the date on the 
coin.]; 
Malik Tughan Shah, Mu’ayyid-ud-Din’s son, who succeeded him, 
passed his days in riot and jollity. In order to strengthen himself 
against the Khwarazm Shah, he contracted a marriage for his son, named 
Sanjar Shah, with the daughter of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i- 
* Tabakat-i-Nasiri, p. 500. % Tabakat-i-Nasiri, p. 128. 
f Tabakat-i-Nasiri, p. 497. 
