The Nāṣirī Generations 256.3.7

256.3.7

At page 137 he says Malik Shah brought under his sway “the whole of the countries of Turkistan.” At page 260 also, our author states that “the Sultan [Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah] set out towards Mawara-un-Nahr and Turkistan; and the whole of the Maliks and Sultans of the Afrasiyabi dynasty, who held territory in the countries of Mawara-un-Nahr and Farghanah, presented themselves before him,” and this was immediately before the total downfall of the Gur Khan and his dynasty. All this, and what has been already related, certainly does not show that “the Afrasiab dynasty is a mistake,” as a recent writer, merely because he has not found anything about them in the foreign translations to which he alone has access, supposes. The Amir of Bilasa-ghun, unable to coerce these Turks—the Karlughs and Kankulis—hearing of the arrival in his vicinity of the Gur Khan, the plenitude of his power, and the number of his dependents and followers, despatched envoys to him to state his own weakness, and inability to keep the Karlughs and Kankulis in subjection, and to invite him to move towards his capital, that he might cede unto him his territories, and release himself from the troubles and sorrows of his present state, and his people be protected.