History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c9.15

c9.15

⁹ Journal U.P. Historical Society, I, pt. II, p. 19. Mr. Gardner Brown follows Lanepoole who says: ‘In 1331-32 A.D. Muhammad Tughluq sent an embassy to Egypt by way of Baghdad probably to induce him to assist in the conquest of Khorasan, which he was to do by detaining the Persian forces on the western frontier by leading a simultaneous attack.’ A History of Egypt, pp. 309-10.