[267] S. Lane-Poole (loc. cit.) reads Mahmūd Khān III., and from this point the list he gives no longer corresponds with Narshakhi’s account.
[268] Mīrkhwānd (Vüllers, Historia Seldschukidarum, p. 176), and Vambéry following him, say that Mohammad was reinstated.
[269] The modern Khiva.
[270] See chap. XX.
[271] This history, by Hamdullah Mustawfi, is one of the most important Persian chronicles. The whole text has never yet been published, but the portion relating to the Seljūks was edited and translated by M. Defrémery.
[272] There is some confusion as to the precise origin of this branch of the Turks. Aug. Müller says that during the disorders which attended the downfall of the Sāmānides and the struggles between the Ghaznavides and the Khāns of Kāshghar, the Ghuz, through internal dissensions, became split up into subdivisions. The foremost of these was a branch who in A.H. 345 (956) settled down in Jend (east of Khwārazm). They received the name of Seljūk from their chief, who had been compelled to quit the court of his master Pighu Khān of the Kipchāk Turks. He is said to have embraced Islām (Müller, Islām, ii. 74).
[273] He was the first prince to bear the title of Sultān. Cf. Gibbon, chap. 47.
[274] Malcolm, op. cit. i. p. 195.
[275] Cf. Müller, op. cit. ii. p. 76.
[276] The son of Altuntāsh mentioned above, p. 123.