The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c13.16

c13.16

¹ Lubāb-u'l-albāb, Chapter IX; Chahār Maqālah, Discourse II, Anecdote XVIII. ² E.g., Tāj, f. 46. ³ Quwwat-u'l-Islām is a corruption. The mosque is mentioned in no chronicle by that name. The old city of Dehlī was called Qubbat-u'l-Islām. The main mosque of this city naturally came to be known as Masjid-i-Qubbat-u'l-Islām. Sir Syed Ahmad seems to have adopted the name Quwwat-u'l-Islām, probably thinking that Qubbat-u'l-Islām was a corruption of Quwwat-u'l-Islām. ⁴ Tāj, f. 73b. ⁵ Idem, f. 65a. ⁶ Tārīkh-i-Fakhr-u'd-dīn Mubārakshāh, pp. 51, 52. Lak-bakhsh = one who bestows lacs (a lac = 100,000); pil-bakhsh = one who bestows elephants.