[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawarikh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › 54.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 54.1 Muntakhab al-tawārīkh 54.1 - **Language:** Persian ### [54.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.54.1) شکرین زبان رسولی که بود نجات امت > Here he was seized with an illness, and took the journey to the next world on Sunday the seventeenth of Zul Q‘adah 923 H. (Jan. 1518 A.D.). The words Jannat-i-firdaus nazala (The gardens of Paradise came down) furnish the date of his death, the duration of his reign was twenty-eight years and five months. Verse. Sikandar, the emperor of the seven kingdoms continued not. No one continues, seeing that Sikandar himself did not continue. Sultan Sikandar used to associate frequently with poets and was himself also a man of taste, and would occasionally compose verses after the ancient Hindustani models, under the pseudonym of Gulrukh, accordingly he felt great pleasure in the companionship of Shaikh Jamali. The following verses are the product of the genius of the Sultan, and are written with the utmost regard to poetical form. > — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) - [Previous: 53.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.53.1) - [Next: 55.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.55.1) - [Up: 54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.54) ## Translations (1) - [Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.54.13) — George S. A. Ranking & W. H. Lowe 1884, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.54.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh.54.1) · Pramāṇa