[446] “Bokharan and Khivan Coins,” a monograph published in the Memoirs of the Eastern Branch of the Russian Archæological Society, vol. iv., St. Petersburg, 1859. This excellent and original monograph is extensively laid under contribution in the present chapter, as it was also by Sir H. Howorth in his chapter on the Shaybānides, pt. ii. div. ii. chap. ix.
[447] See note, p. 190.
[448] The Tazkira Mukīm Khānī, being a history of the appanage of Bokhārā, makes no mention of Kuchunji, or Abū Sa`īd, who ruled in Samarkand, though they both attained the position of Khākān. Cf. Histoire de la Grande Bokharie, par Mouhamed Joussouf el-Munshi, etc., par Senkovsky, St. Petersburg, 1824.
[449] Their names were—Abū Sa`īd, `Ubaydullah, `Abdullah I., `Abd ul-Latīf, Nawrūz Ahmed, Pīr Mohammad, and Iskandar. All are described at some length by Vambéry and Howorth, the latter basing his account on a great variety of authorities.
[450] P. 284 et seq.
[451] Cat. Coins Brit. Mus. vii.
[452] Cf. Howorth, ii. 876.
[453] Khwārazm had never properly belonged to Chaghatāy’s territories in Transoxiana, and accordingly it is a common mint name on coinage of the Golden Horde (Cat. Orient. Coins Brit. Mus. vii. p. 26).
[454] Vide ante, p. 169.
[455] His genealogy is very doubtful; but, according to the best authorities, his ancestor was Jūjī Khān, one of the mighty conqueror’s sons, who had predeceased him (note at p. 304 of Vambéry’s History of Bokhara). Cf. Howorth’s Mongols, part ii. p. 744.