[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. [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.