The Nāṣirī Generations 248.5.2

248.5.2

Second Section.—Account of the Turk tribes whom they designate by the name of Mughuls, but every one of which, in ancient times, bore distinct and particular surnames, and have had Sar-wars and Amirs over them. Third Section.—Account of the Turk tribes, every one of which have had Badshahs and Chiefs, but who bore no relationship to the tribes mentioned in the preceding Sections. [This is a paradox, even from his own words, because, being Turks, they naturally bore relationship to the Turks as descendants from a common ancestor.] Fourth Section.—Account of the tribes of Turks, whose surname from time immemorial was Mughul; and this Section is in two parts. 1. Account of the Dural-gin Mughuls. 2. Account of the Nairun Mughuls. [The author cannot be right, for has not Mr. H. H. Howorth, in the Geographical Magazine for November, 1876, declared that Mongols are not Turks? This is correct with regard to “Mongols,” but scarcely so with respect to Rashid-ud-Din’s Mughuls.] The next Section treats of the ancestors of the Chingiz Khan.