The Nāṣirī Generations 248.5.1

248.5.1

According to the Fanakati the name Mughul or Mughal is the appellative or generic name applied to those who came out of Irganah-Kun, and to the others of that I-mak who rejoined and continued to dwell with them, and that name commenced to be used respecting them from this period; but they had been known, centuries before, as Turks of the Mughal I-mak, by his own account. Some writers who approach this subject from the “Mongol” point of view, and who, unable to read the originals for themselves, imagine that every author who wrote in the Persian language must necessarily be a Persian, and, consequently, cannot know anything of Mughal or Mughul history, because such a word as “Mongol” is not to be found in their works, hug themselves with the idea that the History written by the “great Raschid” may contain something in support of their crude ideas. For the information of such I here append the headings of the first four Sections of Rashid-ud-Din’s History of the Mughuls, as he styles them, and which was compiled from the Altan Daftar, or Golden Record, and other authorities:— First Section.—Account of the tribes of Aghuz, who was the great grandson of Alminjah Khan, son of Turk, son of Yafis, son of Nuh, the Prophet, and of the tribes descended from his uncles, with an account of their genealogy and ramifications.