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H. G. Raverty —Some Muhammadan Coins. 
Sam of Gliur, the enemy of Sultan Takish ; but, as soon as Malik Tughan 
Shah died in 581 H. (1185-86 A. D.), Sultan Takish invaded his terri¬ 
tory, seized Malik San jar Shah, and carried him off to Khwarazm. 
Sultan Takish then contracted marriage with Sanjar’s mother, and 
married him to a daughter of his own. Consequent on this, and his 
captivity, the marriage contract with the daughter of Sultan Ghiyas-ud- 
Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, was annulled, and she was contracted to her 
kinsman, Malik Ziya-ud-Din, Muhammad, surnamed “the Pearl of 
Gliur,” son of Malik Shuja’-ud-Din, Abi-’Ali. He was the uncle’s son of 
the two Sultans, her father and uncle; but he had previously contract¬ 
ed marriage with a Turkish liand-maid, the mother of his son, Rukn-ud- 
Din, I'-ran Shah,* and therefore he was not capable, according to the 
author of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri, of consummating his marriage with that 
princess. On the death of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, 
her father, in 599 H. (1202-3 A. D.), her uncle, Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Din, 
Muhammad-i-Sam, conferred on Ziya-ud-Din, Muhammad, the throne of 
Firuz-Koh, the territories of Ghur, Gharjistan. and the Zamin-i-Dawar, 
and the title, Malik-ul-Haji—for he had performed the pilgrimage to 
Makkah and Madinali—’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, was assigned him. 
He was dispossessed of his territory by his kinsman, the son of Sultan 
Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad, namely, Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Mahmud ; 
and the coins Nos. 133, 134, 135, and 136, are Mahmud’s, on which he 
is styled “ Us-Sultan-ul-Azam, Ghiyas-ud-Dunya waud-Din, Abu-l-Fath, 
Mahmud, son of Muhammad-i-Sam.” It was this Sultan Mahmud, who 
confirmed Malik Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, in the sovereignty of Ghaz-nih, 
and Malik Kutb-ud-Din, I'-bak-i-Shil, in the sovereignty of Dihli. After 
Sultan Mahmud’s assassination in 609 H. (1212-13 A. D.), the Malik-ul- 
Haji, ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad, was restored for a time to the throne of 
Ghur by Sultan Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, in 611 H. (1214-15 A. D.), and 
he then took the title of Sultan, after the death in battle of Sultan ’Ala- 
ud-Din, Utsuz, of Ghur, (No. XXI). The Malik-ul-Haji was the last 
of the Shansabani Tajzik sovereigns of Ghur. He, out of necessity, sub¬ 
mitted to Sultan Muhammad, the Khwarazm Shah, and retired voluntarily 
to Khwarazm in 612 H. (1215-16 A. D.).f 
Respecting the princess—the virgin bride—the daughter of Sultan 
Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muliammad-i-Sam, betrothed to Malik Tughan Shah’s 
son, Sanjar Shah, and afterwards to the Malik-ul-Haji, we have some 
* Rukn-ud-Din, I-ran Shah, was put to death in 607 H. ; and the author of the 
Tabakat-i-Nasiri, then in his 18th year, was standing at the palace gate at Fmiz- 
Koh when his head was brought in. See my translation, p. 396. 
t See Tabakat-i-Nasiri, pp. 346, 391, and 417, where more about him will be 
found. 
