The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c17.48

c17.48

Zāhir, 27, 183 Zamīndār, 207, 212 Zakāt, 23, 95, 96, 98, 99, 132, 191 Zamīn-būs, 73 f.n. Zarradkhānah 69, 151 the *Goths*, the *Vandals*, the *Suevi*, the *Burgundians*, the *Alani*, the *Huns*, the *Franks*, the *Saxons*, the *Thuringians*, the *Rugians*, and the *Heruli*. The names of these tribes are familiar to the reader, but their origin, their migrations, and their settlements are involved in the deepest obscurity. The most probable opinion is that they were all of German or Scythian extraction, and that they had been driven from their native seats by the pressure of the Huns, a formidable nation of Tartars, who had crossed the Volga and the Tanais, and were advancing with rapid strides towards the frontiers of the Roman empire.