[446] “Bokharan and Khivan Coins,” a monograph published in the _Memoirs of the Eastern Branch of the Russian Archæological Society_, vol. iv., St. Petersburg, 1859. This excellent and original monograph is extensively laid under contribution in the present chapter, as it was also by Sir H. Howorth in his chapter on the Shaybānides, pt. ii. div. ii. chap. ix. [447] See note, p. 190. [448] The _Tazkira Mukīm Khānī_, being a history of the appanage of Bokhārā, makes no mention of Kuchunji, or Abū Sa`īd, who ruled in Samarkand, though they both attained the position of Khākān. Cf. _Histoire de la Grande Bokharie, par Mouhamed Joussouf el-Munshi_, etc., par Senkovsky, St. Petersburg, 1824. [449] Their names were--Abū Sa`īd, `Ubaydullah, `Abdullah I., `Abd ul-Latīf, Nawrūz Ahmed, Pīr Mohammad, and Iskandar. All are described at some length by Vambéry and Howorth, the latter basing his account on a great variety of authorities. [450] P. 284 _et seq._ [451] _Cat. Coins Brit. Mus._ vii. [452] Cf. Howorth, ii. 876. [453] Khwārazm had never properly belonged to Chaghatāy’s territories in Transoxiana, and accordingly it is a common mint name on coinage of the Golden Horde (_Cat. Orient. Coins Brit. Mus._ vii. p. 26). [454] _Vide ante_, p. 169. [455] His genealogy is very doubtful; but, according to the best authorities, his ancestor was Jūjī Khān, one of the mighty conqueror’s sons, who had predeceased him (note at p. 304 of Vambéry’s _History of Bokhara_). Cf. Howorth’s _Mongols_, part ii. p. 744. [456] Vambéry relates that when, in the great mosque of Bokhārā, the public prayers were read for the first time for the new ruler, the whole congregation burst into sobs and bitter tears (_History of Bokhara_, p. 319). [457] Vambéry, p. 323. [458] This prince was famed throughout the East for his love of letters. He was a poet of no mean skill, and an adept at prose composition. His end was untimely. Enticed to give a private interview to some of his brother Subhān Kulī Khān’s party, he was foully murdered by them (Vambéry, P. 323). [459] Vambéry tells us that he was a man of amazing corpulence; and one of his historians avers that a child four years old could find accommodation in one of his boots! (_History of Bokhara_, p. 325). [460] Vambéry, _History of Bokhara_, p. 333. [461] _History of Bokhara_, p. 339. [462] Page 95, _History of Central Asia_, by `Abd ul-Kerīm Bokhārī; translated into French by Charles Schefer, Paris, 1876.