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# حبیب السیر 19.6

Habíbu-s Siyar of Khondamír (extracts) 19.6

- **Language:** English

### [19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.tarikh.habib-al-siyar~en-elliot.19.6)

Mas'ud had crossed over the Sind, but all his baggage and property was on the other side of the river, when Noshtigin, with some of his attendants, plundered the treasury, and put Muhammad Makhul on the throne. According to Hamdu-lla Mustaufi, they seated him on an elephant, and carried him round the camp. Mas'ud upon hearing this fled, and took refuge in a certain sarai, but the rebels seized him, and took him before Muhammad, who confined him and his dependents in the fort of Kiri. Muhammad relinquished the Sultanship to his son Ahmad, upon which Ahmad, who was tainted with insanity, without permission of his father, and in conjunction with the son of Yusuf bin Subuktigin and the son of Ali Kheshawand, went to the fort, and in the year A.H. 433 (A.D. 1041-2), murdered that king, who was the protector of the learned. Amongst the learned men who were contemporary with Mas'ud was Shaikh Abu Rihan Muhammad bin Ahmad Biruni Khwarizmi the astrologer, and author of the book called Tafhimu-t Tanjim i.e., "Explanation of the Science of Astrology," and also of the Kanun Mas'udi. Another was Abu Muhammad Nasihi, who wrote the Kitab-i Mas'udi, on the theology of Imam Abu Hanifa, upon whom let there be the mercy of God! These books were all compiled in Mas'ud's name.

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