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1 Pre | Gore Ouseley and Daulat Shah, whose work is mainly a
2 Pre | century, a certain Mahmud Shah Inju was governing the province
3 Pre | On the death of Mahmud Shah, Abu Said appointed Sheikh
4 Pre | the three sons of Mahmud Shah to be seized and imprisoned;
5 Pre | the three sons of Mahmud Shah Inju who had so narrowly
6 Pre | Atabeg, and the son of Mahmud Shah was obliged to content himself
7 Pre | the keys of his gate to Shah Shudja, son of Mahommad
8 Pre | himself was the first to fall. Shah Shudja seized his father
9 Pre | kindled (i.e. Mahommad's son, Shah Shudja), through those eyes
10 Pre | unmoved to his devotions. Shah Shudja once asked his father
11 Pre | reach 800."~After his death, Shah Shudja reigned in Shiraz,
12 Pre | Shiraz, and his brother Shah Yahya in Yezd. Shah Shudia
13 Pre | brother Shah Yahya in Yezd. Shah Shudia was a man of like
14 Pre | to save the boy. Before Shah Shudja's death the knell
15 Pre | Northern Persia. In 1382 Shah Shudja sent a propitiatory
16 Pre | time with riotous living, Shah Shudja did his utmost to
17 Pre | Ahmed entered the room where Shah Shudja lay sick to death,
18 Pre | obliged to withdraw. Thereupon Shah Shudja sent him a letter
19 Pre | unhappy city." And Ahmed went.~Shah Shudja died in the odour
20 Pre | Timur bestowed Shiraz upon Shah Yahya, uncle to Mansur,
21 Pre | fighting beneath the sword of Shah Rukh Mirza, Timur's son,
22 Pre | Hafiz passed into that of Shah Shudja, but the relations
23 Pre | been somewhat strained. Shah Shudja may have distrusted
24 Pre | interlocutor towards the other. Shah Shudja reproached Hafiz
25 Pre | wine-cup received honour from Shah Shudja, Fortune has put
26 Pre | several poems he welcomes Shah Shudja's accession to the
27 Pre | keeper of the peace (i.e. Shah Shudja) and received permission
28 Pre | proclaimed the glory of Shah Shudja, just as he had proclaimed
29 Pre | guardian unto thee!"~One of Shah Shudja's vizirs, Hadji Kawameddin
30 Pre | renowned for his wisdom), while Shah Shudja masquerades under
31 Pre | encouraging. He visited Shah Yahya, Shah Shudja's brother,
32 Pre | He visited Shah Yahya, Shah Shudja's brother, at Yezd,
33 Pre | that the allusion is to Shah Yahya--"though while I dwelt
34 Pre | after this luckless visit to Shah Yahya that he is said to
35 Pre | the pressing invitation of Shah, Mahmud Purabi, Sultan of
36 Pre | compares this Sultan with Shah Yahya, much to the disadvantage
37 Pre | mouth with pearls, whereas Shah Yahya, to whose court he
38 Pre | had sent him empty away.~Shah Shudja was not the only
39 Pre | view of his life. Daulat Shah, for instance, states that "
40 Pre | due deference to Daulat Shah, I would submit that Abu
41 Pre | would submit that Abu Ishac, Shah Shudja, and Shah Mansur
42 Pre | Ishac, Shah Shudja, and Shah Mansur were none of them
43 Pre | It is related that Nadir Shah took counsel from Hafiz'
44 Pre | appointed hour of Tabriz." Nadir Shah took this as an encouragement
45 Pre | ceremonies grew up. Daulat Shah in his Biography of the
46 Pre | welcomed the accession of Shah Shudja, nor was it only
47 Pre | But this is not all. With Shah Shudja, I would accuse him
48 II(*) | beautiful garden belonging to Shah Shudja, and called by him
49 XXI(*) | King of the Deccan, Mahmud Shah Bahmani, had heard of the
50 XXI(*) | of the money which Mahmud Shah had sent to him. He was
51 XXI(*) | him on a vessel of Mahmud Shah's which was coming to fetch
52 XXI(*) | Vizir read it to Mahmud Shah, who was transported by
53 XXIV(*)| Stanza 5.--Shah Shudja, as has been related
54 XXIV(*)| had been the protégé of Shah Shudja's former rival, Abu
55 XXXIX | after wickedness.~From the Shah's garden blows the wind
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