The Nāṣirī Generations 248.3.6

248.3.6

All these formed mighty tribes and nations, the names of some of which have been herein mentioned, and some formed great empires, like as did the Saljuks, Khwarazmis, and others. The early Musalmans made raids upon them, and the Khalifahs also, from a very early period, entertained numbers of Turks and Tattar I-mak in their service, but we never hear of Mughals being entertained by them. There is no doubt that their taking service under the Khalifahs and their great vassals, many of whom were their own countrymen, considerably tended to the greater civilization of the Turks and Tattars, and their early conversion to the Musalman faith, but, with regard to others not converted, it is evident that feuds arose among them and that Musalman merchants carried on a large traffic in Turkish slaves. The four persons, two males—Kaian, son of I-yal-Khan, and Naguz, his maternal uncle’s son, with their respective sisters, their wives—the Timur Namah says two females, sisters, who, at this juncture, they took to wife—having escaped the slaughter of their people, secured some of their effects, and as soon as night set in they mounted horses, and made for the mountains which were some distance off.