[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Encyclopaedias](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua) › [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt) › 2.36 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.36 English (machine translation) 2.36 - **Language:** English ### [2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.36) to his own residence and the residence of his harem, the private quarters of his slave-girls \[1\] and concubines \[2\], and the houses of his servants and mamlūks. None of the khāns or the amīrs lives with him, and none of them is there except when they attend for service; then each one goes back to his own house. Their attendance is twice every day, early each morning and after the afternoon prayer. The amīrs are ranked in these grades: the highest in standing are the khāns, then the maliks, then the amīrs, then the iṣbahsālārs \[3\], then the troops. In his service are eighty khāns or more, and his army is nine hundred thousand horsemen of these, some at his court and some throughout the other lands; all of them are paid by his dīwān \[4\] and all are embraced by his bounty. His troops are Turks, Khiṭāy, Persians and Indians, and among them are the pahlawāns \[5\] and the shikārs \[6\], and of the remaining kinds and races, all of them with branded horses, excellent weapons and conspicuous, abundant finery. Most of the amīrs and troops occupy themselves with jurisprudence, - [Previous: 2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.35) - [Next: 2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.37) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2) ## Translations (1) - [Masáliku-l Absár (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-elliot.1.4) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1871, English ## Linked texts (1) - [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar.2.36) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.36) · Pramāṇa