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Our author himself adverts \[page 38\] to ’Abd-ullah, son of Askan, Khwarazm Shah, as early as 332 H.; and in the present Section farther on \[page 233\] again refers to them. In 386 H., mention is made of another ’Abd-ullah, styled Khwarazm Shah, who in that year was made prisoner by the forces of Mamun, son of Muhammad, Lord of Jurjaniah of Khwarazm. ’Abd-ullah was taken in fetters to Jurjaniah, and subsequently beheaded; and the whole of Khwarazm passed under the rule of Mamun, son of Muhammad. The territories of Khwarazm and Jurjaniah, had, for a considerable time, been in the possession of this family, who are styled Farighuni, subordinate to the Samani sovereigns. In 387 H., the same year in which Nuh, son of Mansur, Samani, Amir Sabuk-Tigin, and Fakhr-ud-Daulah, Dilami, died, Mamun, Farighuni, died also, and was succeeded by his son, Abu ’Ali, who was married to a sister of Mahmud of Ghaznin. ’Ali died in 390 H., and was succeeded by his brother, Abu-l-’Abbas-i-Mamun \[son of Mamun\]. He despatched an envoy to Mahmud, asking the latter’s consent to his \[Abu-l-’Abbas\] espousing his brother’s widow, the sister of Mahmud, which request was acquiesced in. ### [119.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119.2) This Abu-l-’Abbas was the patron of Bu-Rihan, who passed seven years in his service. The Khalifah, Kadir B’illah, sent him a dress of honour, a title, and addressed him as Khwarazm Shah; but, such was ’Abbas’ attachment to \[or fear of?\] Mahmud, that he did not make this matter known. In 407 H. his nobles and troops rose against him, because he meditated acknowledging the suzerainty of Mahmud, put him to death, and set up his nephew in his stead. Mahmud marched into Khwarazm, to revenge his brother-in-law, slew Alb-Tigin \[some call him Nial-Tigin\] ’Abbas’ chamberlain, and other ringleaders, and the murderers of ’Abbas, annexed the territory, and conferred the government of it upon his \[own\] Great Chamberlain, Altun-Tash, with the designation of Khwarazm Shah. Abu Nasr, son of ’Abd-ul-Haris, Farighuni, Wali of Jurjanan and the territory of Jawzjanan, of the same family, had died in 402 H., upon which Mahmud had annexed that territory, and had sent a Diwan of his own to administer its affairs. ### [119.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119.3) Altun-Tash, Khwarazm Shah, presented himself at the court of his sovereign, Sultan Mas’ud, in 422 H., and died from the effects of a wound received in battle in 424 H. His son Harun, who succeeded, became disaffected towards Sultan Mas’ud, in 425 H., assumed independence, and intrigued with the Turkmans and Saljuks. This fact our author alludes to at pages 120 and 121, but says nothing further. Harun was killed in 426 H., and was succeeded by his brother, Isma’il, who held Khwarazm for a short time; but he was soon after ousted by Shah Malik, a neighbouring chief, upon whom Sultan Mas’ud conferred it, provided he could drive out Isma’il. Isma’il, accordingly, having been driven out, took shelter with the Saljuks in Khurasan. In 434 H., Sultan Tughril annexed Khwarazm to his dominions; and but little is said about it afterwards until 475 when Malik Shah, Saljuki, conferred the Intendancy of Khwarazm upon the slave, Nush-Tigin-i-Gharjah, the father of Kutb-ud-Din, Muhammad, the first ruler of the dynasty mentioned by our author. Balka-Tigin \[Guzidah and Jahan-Ara style him Malka-Tigin, but it is an error\], one of the slaves and grandees of the court of Malik Shah, who held the office of Tasht-dar, or Purveyor, purchased Nush-Tigin, much in the same manner as Alb-Tigin, the slave of the Samanis, purchased Sabuk-Tigin. man, in the year 622 H. to the aid of the sons of the Maliks of Nimroz, and arrived in that country, and the territories of Nimroz were left in his possession. ### [119.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119.4) The author of this book came from Khaesar of Ghur, on a mission from the august Malik, Rukn-ud-Din, Muhammad, ’Usman, Maraghani, in order to secure a compact, and arrived at Farah of Sistan, and proceeded to the presence of Malik Taj-ud-Din, Binal-Tigin. During the conversation at the interview, Malik Taj-ud-Din mentioned that Malik Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, the Turk, came, with his tribe and kindred, towards Jund and Khwarazm, from the side of Suhari \[or Sahari\], and from among the tribes of Kifchak and Kankuli, and, for a considerable period, dwelt in those tracts, subject to the Khwarazm-Shahi rulers, Abu Ja’far and Mamun, and their posterity, and used to subsist in the wilds and pasture-lands. As Kutb-ud-Din was a spirited, enterprising, and high-minded chief, and of admirable temperament, the leadership of the forces of the Maliks of Khwarazm was entrusted to him, until, as Providence had decreed, the ruler of Khwarazm at that period died, and no son of his survived who could take his place, and his dominions were left without a sovereign. A daughter, however, survived him; and the whole of the great nobles of Khwarazm agreed among themselves, and gave that daughter in marriage to Malik Kutb-ud-Din. The espousals having been concluded, the name of sovereign was assigned to that daughter, and the viceroyalty was conferred upon Malik Kutb-ud-Din, the Turk, her husband. ### [119.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119.5) He brought the whole of the territory of Khwarazm under his jurisdiction, and the tracts on the confines under subjection; and by his alertness, and his sagacity, restrained enemies and tyrants from violence and sedition. He also guarded the frontiers of Khwarazm Shah from the infidels of Saksin, Bulghar, and Kifchak. The Almighty so decreed that Malik Kutb-ud-Din had a son born to him by that lady \[the daughter of the late ruler\], and they gave him the name of Muhammad; and, after the termination of the lives of his mother and father, the sovereignty of Khwarazm devolved upon him. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.119) · Pramāṇa