[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) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 3.5 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 3.5 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 3.5 - **Language:** English ### [3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3.5) He retired, therefore, with his family, and a number of Arab retainers, into the Soolimany mountains, situated between Mooltan and Pishawur, where he took up his residence, and gave his daughter in marriage to one of the Afghan chiefs, who had become a proselyte to Mahomedism. From this marriage many children were born, among whom were two sons famous in history. The one Lody, the other Soor; who each, subsequently, became head of the tribes which to this day bear their name. I have read in the Mutla-ool-Anwar, a work written by a respectable author, and which I procured at Boorhanpoor, a town of Kandeish in the Dekkan, that the Afghans are Copts of the race of the Pharaohs; and that when the prophet Moses got the better of that infidel who was overwhelmed in the Red Sea, many of the Copts became converts to the Jewish faith; but others, stubborn and self-willed, refusing to embrace the true faith, leaving their country, came to India, and eventually settled in the Soolimany mountains, where they bore the name of Afghans. At the time when Abraha marched against Mecca, he was accompanied by several tribes of infidels from far and near, and, on that occasion, a body of these Afghans, it is said, also joined his forces. These tribes were eventually annihilated. - [Previous: 3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3.4) - [Next: 3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3.6) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.3.5) · Pramāṇa