The Nāṣirī Generations 253.4

253.4

There is a History, so-called, of this personage, who, in recent times, has been regarded as a saint, and a tomb and masjid have been raised over him. The account is written by the Shaikh Najm-ud-Din, in Persian, and translated into Turki; but, as might be expected, it is history burlesqued. It is quoted by Surgeon-Major Bellew, C.S.I., who was attached to the late Kashghar Mission, who has composed a “History of Kashghar, from the Tabakati Nasari” etc., etc., which may be styled history in chaos. Shaikh Najm-ud-Din causes Hazrat Satuk to be born in 333 H., and to die in 430 H., at the age of ninety-six years. Unfortunately for such history, the IXth sovereign of the race, and the eighth or ninth in descent from the Satuk in question, was reigning over Turkistan including Kashghar in 430 H. The Doctor, however, “would identify” Satuk with, whom he calls, “Iylik Mazi — as he is usually styled. [I-lak-i-Mazi, probably — the past, or late I-lak, or of days of yore, as he is [Khan], of days of yore—and who were subject to the Saljuk Sultans, they occupied those plains and pasture