History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.165

c10.165

¹⁰⁴ This was in the time of Sultan Nasir who was a powerful monarch. It was the Khalifah Al-Mustakfi billah who was forbidden to have any intercourse with the people and ultimately banished to Kus (in upper Egypt). His children and descendants were allowed a maintenance just sufficient for them. Al-Mustakfi remained there till his death in Shaban, 740 A.H. Jalal-al-Din A's Sayuti, History of the Caliphs, translated by Jarrett (Biblioth, Ind.) p. 513.