The Nāṣirī Generations 249.2

249.2

The descendants of Alan-Kuwa’s legitimate sons, by her husband, are styled by the general name of Dural-gin — previously written Dural-gin — Dural-gin — and applied to the descendants of Naguz, whilst, by the different writers’ own accounts, without exception, they, as well as their father and mother, belonged to the Qaiat sept. They are considered lower in rank than the Nurun or Nairun. The majority of writers state that the birth of these sons of light took place in the time of Abu-Muslim, the Marwazi, the proclaimer of the rights of the 'Abbasis to the Khilafat. He was born in 99 H. [A.D. 717 — 718] some say in the following year — and he began to advocate the claims of that house in 128 H. [A.D. 745 — 746]. Abu-l-Ghazi states that 450 years elapsed between the flight of Qaian and his cousin Naguz and the reign of Bu-zanjar, and, calculating from these dates, their flight would have taken place about 322 years before the first year of the Muhammadan era, that is, about the middle of A. D. 300, but other historians, as I have stated before, mention that the Qaiat and Naguz continued to dwell in Irganah-Qun 400 years, and they say that Bu-zanjar succeeded to the chieftainship, when in his fifteenth year, in informants, the events of the Muhammadan territory, and Rabi’-ul-Awwal, but no year is given. One work, however, the “Shajarah-ul-Atrak,” states that it was on the 1st of that month in the year 130 H.