History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.28

c6.28

In a matter like this Firishta is preferable to 'Afif who was a court historian to Firuz Tughluq, inclined to suppress the fact of the low origin of his patron's dynasty, and to Ibn Batutah who may have carelessly written 'Ala-al-Din Khilji for Ghiyas-al-Din Balban. Besides, the latter wrote from memory, and a slip of this kind is not impossible particularly when one is writing long after the event took place and when no verification is possible in a distant land.