[386] For historical data we have already referred the reader to Mr. Oliver’s paper and Vambéry’s Bokhara. S. Lane-Poole, in his Mohammedan Dynasties, gives a list of twenty-six Khāns of this house who ruled in Central Asia from A.H. 624 to 771 (A.D. 1227 to 1358), i.e. 140 years. The Zafar-Nāmé of Nizām Shāmī (see note below, p. [168]) gives a list of thirty-one Khāns of this line.
[387] Cf. Müller’s Geschichte des Islams, ii. p. 217.
[388] In A.H. 671 (1273) Bokhārā was sacked by the Mongols of Persia (Müller, op. cit. ii. p. 260).
[389] Bokhara, pp. 159–60.
[390] This Khānate embraced the present Zungaria and the greater part of Eastern and Western Turkestān; but the exact meaning of this geographical term is still undetermined. The subject has been fully discussed in the Tarikh-i-Rashidi (passim). Cf. also Bretschneider, op. cit. ii. 225 et seq.
[391] See Tarikh-i-Rashidi, Introduction, p. 37.
[392] The Calcutta text of the Zafar-Nāmé of Sheref ud-Dīn `Alī Yazdī, the famous biographer of Tīmūr, reads throughout Karān. S. Lane-Poole, op. cit., gives the date of his accession as 744 (A.D. 1343),—upon what authority it is not clear. Price (following the Khulāsat ul-Akhbār) is in agreement with the Zafar-Nāmé. We are, moreover, expressly told that he ruled fourteen years, and died in 747.
[393] Zafar-Nāmé (ed. Calcutta), i. p. 27.
[394] This took place in the plains round the village of Dara-Zangi (Zafar-Nāmé, ii. p. 28).
[395] The third son of Chingiz, who had inherited the kingdom of Mongolia proper.