The Nāṣirī Generations 248.3.1

248.3.1

The writer of this last marvellously incorrect statement also asserts that “the word Tatar owes its origin only to a jeu de mots of which St. Louis was the author.” Perhaps St. Louis stood god-father to Tattar the son of Alanjah, and gave him that name. The assertion that the Chingiz Khan was “a black Tatar,” and adopted the denomination of "Mongols” or Mughals for his people is, as I have already shown, and shall show still more farther on, totally and utterly incorrect, and for that, as well as the other incorrect assertions contained in this book, and its author’s authorities, respecting the Turks, Tattars, and Mughals, I challenge Maliks and Sultans of Islam remained in these countries any one to show me a single proof in any Muhammadan or in any Asiatic writer whatever. I notice, and, I must say, with utter surprise, that much the same erroneous ideas are put forward in “An Ancient History from the Earliest Records to the Fall of the Western Empire, by Philip Smith, B.A., one of the principal contributors to the Dictionaries of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Biography, and Geography,” published in 1868, and which has gone through several editions. He says [vol. iii., page 737]:—