The Nāṣirī Generations 253.1

253.1

Trustworthy persons have related after this manner, that the first irruption of the Turks was that the tribes of Karah Khita issued from the territory of Chin and land of the East, and came out upon the confines of Kaialik and Bilasaghun, and withdrew their allegiance from the sovereign of Tamghaj, and made the frontier tracts of Islam their dwelling-place, and their grazing-grounds. On agreeing to pay certain fixed imposts, for pasturage, to the Afrasiyabi Maliks, who were Musalman sovereigns, of the posterity of Afrasiyab — the descendants of the I-lak Maliks, because our author, both here and in his account of the Samanis, Saljuks, and Khwarazmi Sultans, occasionally confuses their names in such a manner as to puzzle and bewilder his readers. Such brief account of them will also tend to make the preceding account of the Turks clearer, and throw light upon the previous account of the Khwarazmi dynasty and of the Gur Khans farther on, and correct some crude theories recently put forth.