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'I'his is borne out by a letter from the Emperor Akbar's poet-laureate Faizi to Rajey Ali Khan, · ruler of Khandes, requesting that prince to have copied out the fitst sixteen and as many last leaves of the 'Iughluq-Namah of Amir Khusrau for the writer, because some of them were missing from his own copy .
Another contemporary of Faizi, namely Jamaluddfn Anjou, the learned author of the Persian lexicon, Farhang• i-Jehanfiri, quotes a number of verses from the Tughluq• Namah among other works of Amir Khusrau, but we have (1) Mr. Muhammad Ashraf of Bihar, a scholar of London University in 1980, kindly gave me a reference to this interesting letter, now preserved in Sir Henry Elliot's collection at the British "Museum.
These verses are numbered 279 to 282 in my edition of the Tughluq-Namah and read as follows: (View the image of this page) statement in his opening verses of which a fuller abstract is given in my summary of the book below.
" In our own times, when a regular office was set up by the late Nawab Ishaq Khan of the Aligarh Muslim Uni• versity to collect and publish new editions of Amir Khus• rau's works, little hope was entertained of ever finding out the missing Tughluq-Namah.
The story of the murder of the Emperor Quth• uddin, Hasan Khusrau Khan's short-lived reign and the victories of Ghyasuddin Tughluq as told by the African traveller Ibn Batfttah is rather vague and incoherent.