History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.163

c10.163

¹⁰² Ibid., p. 94. Arnold says: "One of the most remarkable features of this document is the assumption of authority by the Caliph over territories that had not owed allegiance to the 'Abbasid dynasty for centuries, his claim to supreme jurisdiction in the Muslim world though he himself had no troops or resources of any kind at his disposal, and his interference, though an entire stranger in the administrative details of so highly organised a bureaucratic system as that of the government of Egypt."