[185] The two first give their name to the mystic and moral age; from 1203 to 1300; the third to that of the highest splendor of Persian lyrical poetry and rhetoric, from 1300 to 1397 of our era.――(See _Schöne Redekünste Persiens Von Joseph Von Hammer, Wien_, 1818.) [186] He was born in Cyrene, in Africa, towards the end of our fourth century, and died, about 430, bishop of Ptolemais. [187] Cowley. [188] See vol. III. p. 291 n. 1. [189] See vol. III. pp. 123 n. 4; 293 n. [190] I follow the German translation of Baron von Hammer, _loco cit._, p. 189. [191] Shams-eddin Tabrisi, whom Jelal-eddin names at the end of nearly all his lyric poems, is said to have been the son of Khuand Ala-eddin, chief of the Assassins (Ismâilahs). He gained a great celebrity as a Súfi and a saint. From Tabriz, from which town he took his surname, he came to Konia; there Jelal-eddin chose him for his spiritual guide, and remained attached to him all his life, which terminated A. D. 1262. Shams-eddin survived him. The tombs of the master and disciple, near each other in Konia, are even in our days objects of veneration to pious Muselmans. [192] _Ibid._, p. 191, [193] The distance to which Muhammed approached God in heaven. [194] Two Arabian idols, the Dusares and Allitta of Herodotus. [195] Syrian deities. [196] The guardian of paradise. [197] In his Treatise on the mystical poetry of the Persians and Hindus: vol. IV. of his Works, p. 232. § XV.――RECAPITULATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE DABISTAN.