[376] The route he took was Kazwīn, Gilān, and Māzenderān (Tarikh-i-Mukīm Khānī).
[377] He is said to have died a lunatic. The island in question has long since been swallowed up by the sea. Cf. Tabakāt-i-Nāsiri, Major Raverty’s trans., vol. i. p. 278, note.
[378] We refer the reader especially to Müller’s Geschichte des Islams, pp. 213–225.
[379] Mohammedan Dynasties, p. 204.
[380] The best account of this offshoot is to be found in an excellent paper entitled “The Chaghatai Mughals,” by W. E. E. Oliver, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xx. New Series, p. 72, sec. 9. It will be found in a condensed form in Ney Elias and Ross’s Introduction to the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, or “History of the Mughals of Central Asia.”
[381] Vide ante on p. 155.
[382] In the valley of the Upper Ili, near the site of the present Kulja.
[383] During the reign of Chaghatāy Khān a curious rising occurred in the province of Bokhārā. A half-witted sieve-maker, from a village near Bokhārā, managed by various impostures to gather round him a number of disciples from among the common people, and so numerous and powerful did they become that in 630 (1232) they drove the Chaghatāy government out of the country, and, assuming the government of Bokhārā, proceeded to put to death many of its most distinguished citizens. They at first successfully repulsed the Mongol forces sent against them, but were finally vanquished, and order was again restored in Bokhārā. For this episode consult Vambéry, op. cit. p. 143 et seq.; Major Price’s Mohammedan History, iii. 2.
[384] Tarikh-i-Rashidi, Introduction, p. 32.
[385] Chaghatāy is said to have died from grief at his brother’s death (Habīb-us-Siyar).