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1 Pre | keys of his gate to Shah Shudja, son of Mahommad ibn Muzaffar,
2 Pre | the first to fall. Shah Shudja seized his father while
3 Pre | i.e. Mahommad's son, Shah Shudja), through those eyes which
4 Pre | unmoved to his devotions. Shah Shudja once asked his father whether
5 Pre | After his death, Shah Shudja reigned in Shiraz, and his
6 Pre | save the boy. Before Shah Shudja's death the knell of the
7 Pre | Northern Persia. In 1382 Shah Shudja sent a propitiatory embassy
8 Pre | with riotous living, Shah Shudja did his utmost to secure
9 Pre | entered the room where Shah Shudja lay sick to death, both
10 Pre | withdraw. Thereupon Shah Shudja sent him a letter by the
11 Pre | city." And Ahmed went.~Shah Shudja died in the odour of sanctity.
12 Pre | passed into that of Shah Shudja, but the relations between
13 Pre | somewhat strained. Shah Shudja may have distrusted the
14 Pre | towards the other. Shah Shudja reproached Hafiz with the
15 Pre | received honour from Shah Shudja, Fortune has put the goblet
16 Pre | several poems he welcomes Shah Shudja's accession to the throne
17 Pre | of the peace (i.e. Shah Shudja) and received permission
18 Pre | proclaimed the glory of Shah Shudja, just as he had proclaimed
19 Pre | unto thee!"~One of Shah Shudja's vizirs, Hadji Kawameddin
20 Pre | his wisdom), while Shah Shudja masquerades under the title
21 Pre | visited Shah Yahya, Shah Shudja's brother, at Yezd, but
22 Pre | sent him empty away.~Shah Shudja was not the only member
23 Pre | submit that Abu Ishac, Shah Shudja, and Shah Mansur were none
24 Pre | welcomed the accession of Shah Shudja, nor was it only to disarm
25 Pre | this is not all. With Shah Shudja, I would accuse him of mixing
26 II(*) | garden belonging to Shah Shudja, and called by him the Baghi-Irem,
27 XXIV(*)| Stanza 5.--Shah Shudja, as has been related in
28 XXIV(*)| been the protégé of Shah Shudja's former rival, Abu Ishac.
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