History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.161

c10.161

¹⁰⁰ The Khalifah was rolled up in a blanket and then rubbed against the ground until the joints of his body were completely broken. Habib-us-Siyar, Book II, Chapter III, p. 81. The author of the Tabqāt-i-Nāsiri (Raverty's translation, II, pp. 1253-54), says that the Khalifah and his sons were sewn up in bullock's hides and kicked to death. According to Waṣṣāf the Khalifah was rolled in a carpet and trampled on until life was extinct and the shedding of his blood was thus avoided. Please see 'Le Strange's article on 'The story of the death of the last 'Abbasid Caliph from the Vatican MS. of Ibn-al-Furāt' in the J.R.A.S., 1900, pp. 295—98.