[257] Cf. Forsyth’s Mission to Yarkand,—Dr. Bellew’s chapter on the History of Kāshghar, p. 121. The account of the first introduction of Islām into Kāshghar is given in a Turki work entitled the Tazkira Bughra Khān (which was translated from the Persian of Shaykh `Attār). Extracts from this somewhat fantastic work have been published in the original in Shaw’s Turki Grammar.
[258] Ed. Schefer, p. 233.
[259] They advanced within three stages of Balāsāghūn. They are spoken of as coming from Sīn (China), but they were probably not Chinese but Eastern Uïghūrs (cf. Bretschneider, i. 253).
[260] His name is often given in Oriental histories as Kadr. See Raverty, Tabakāt-i-Nāsiri.
[261] Cf. Narshakhi, ed. Schefer, p. 234.
[262] We are told by this same author that they had caused much depredation among the Mohammedans, which seems inconsistent with what has been said of them before.
[263] S. Lane-Poole gives the date of Boghrā Khān’s death as 435, and makes no mention of his son Ibrāhīm.
[264] Narshakhi, ed. Schefer, reads this name Tumghāch.
[265] S. Lane-Poole (loc. cit.) says Ibrāhīm died in 460, and was succeeded by his son Nasr, who died in 472. It will be seen that great confusion exists with regard to these Khāns. Major Raverty, in his translation of the Tabakāt-i-Nāsiri, furnishes a long list of Ilik Khāns; but it is hard to reconcile any two accounts, so much do the names and dates differ.
[266] S. Lane-Poole (Mohammedan Dynasties, p. 135) says Mahmūd Khān II.