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The great Muslim Empires, Turkey and Persia, were slow to abandon the attitude of contempt for all things European which was justifiable in the Middle Ages but had ceased to be justifiable long before it disappeared at the beginning of the twentieth century, to be succeeded by a blind enthusiasm for every good or bad phenomenon of \Vcstern life.
oculation against small-pox, The Turkish bath and the use of mineral springs for healing purposes came to us from Turkey also in the eighteenth century, and every student of literature knows the high idea of Eastern splendour, Eastern wisdom, Eastern power cherished at the time by Europeans of intelligence.
The author shows the indignation felt by every Persian when the Anglo-Russian agreement dividing Persia into " spheres of influence " was published in 1£07, the year following the Persian Revolution.
It opens with the praise of Almighty God, as usual with Persian books : (View the image of this page) and is followed by a brief survey of Taimur's dynasty in India.
The author has not given his exact name any• where, only his poetical pen-name HAQIRI (Humiliated) in several places : - (View the image of this page) Therefore I have entered this under the name of:- AURANG NAMA-I-HAQIRf. in my work The Mn·in Sources of Aurnngzeb's L~fe, s:mply.
9. Dara having come to know of Jaswant's defeat calls back his son Suleyman, and Aurangzeb advances to Gwalior.
Aurangzeb pursues Dara to l\Iultan where he receives information as to the coming of Shuja' who crowns himself in Delhi.