تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.14.1

11.14.1

His name is vocalised with u after the dotted t, a quiescent dotted gh, u after the l, and ending in q. The shaykh, the imām, the pious, learned, practising and devout Rukn al-Dīn, son of the pious shaykh Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh, son of the saint, the imām, the learned and devout Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zakariyyāʾ al-Qurashī al-Multānī, told me in his hospice there that Sultan Tughluq was one of the Turks known as the Qarawna (with a after the q and the r, a quiescent w and a after the n), who dwell in the mountains between the land of Sind and the land of the Turks. He was of humble condition, and came to the land of Sind in the service of a certain merchant, being his kalwānī; the kalwānī (with u after the hard k) is a horse-herd. This was in the days of Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, and the amīr of Sind at that time was his brother Ulū Khān (with u after the hamza and the l). Tughluq served him and attached himself to him, and he enrolled him among the bayāda (with i after the single-dotted b and a after the y), that is, the foot-soldiers. Then his excellence became evident and he was entered among the horsemen; then he was one of the lesser amīrs, and Ulū Khān made him master of his horse; afterwards he was one of the great amīrs and was called al-Malik al-Ghāzī.