The Nāṣirī Generations 248.4.1

248.4.1

Abu-l-Fazl, the author of the Akbar Namah, however, makes a very bold guess indeed, and has the assurance to fix the period at “about 2000 years.”—This is almost as absurd as the Fanakati’s 4000 years previously referred to—He has mixed up the account of the I-ghurs with that of Kaiat and Dural-gin, and hence this assumption. He also asserts that this migration took place at the end of the reign of Nushirwan, the Just, ruler of I-ran [A.D. 521—579], and “supposes” that the art of writing and reading did not exist. He also states that, during that period of “nearly 2000 years,” while they dwelt in Irganah-Kun, twenty-five persons “reigned,” which would give over eighty years’ reign to each; but most of the other writers I have compiled this account from, with the exception of Abu-l-Ghazi, say nothing about any previous rulers, while some others distinctly state that they obeyed no single chief, until the period when the chief authority over the different tribes fell to I-yal-duz, son of Mangali.