[713] For a detailed account of the curriculum the reader is referred to Khanikoff, chap. xxix.
[714] The leader in the serious rising in Farghāna last spring was named Ishān Mohammed `Alī Khalīfa. In July 1898 a Russian was murdered at New Bokhārā, and the life of another was attempted by one of these fanatics.
[715] Schuyler retails an old scandal to the effect that the 40,000 roubles which the Madrasas cost were bestowed by the empress on a Bokhāran envoy at her Court after a liaison with him (Turkestan, ii. p. 93).
[716] Moser, p. 151; Khanikoff, pp. 101–2.
[717] Meyendorff writes: “The lot of slaves in Bokhārā is terrible. Nearly all the Russians complain of being badly fed and severely beaten. I met one whose master had cut off his ears, driven nails through his palms, flayed his back, and poured boiling oil on his arms” (p. 286).
[718] “Amīr ul Mu´minīn,” the title adopted by the Caliphs.
[719] Fath `Alī, Shāh of Persia, asked a European, who told him that his sovereign’s acts were subject to public approbation: “Wherein lies the pleasure of ruling if one can’t do exactly as one pleases?”
[720] Moser, p. 160.
[721] A very elaborate description of the old Court régime is given in chaps. xxiv. and xxv. of Khanikoff’s Bokhara.
[722] Khanikoff, p. 233.