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 1 Pre     |    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE~SHEMSUDDIN MAHOMMAD, better known by his poetical
 2 Pre     |       ousting his old enemy, while Mahommad ibn Muzaffar, who had earned
 3 Pre     |    expeditions against Yezd, where Mahommad ibn Muzaffar and his sons
 4 Pre     |           an end to these attacks, Mahommad marched into Fars and laid
 5 Pre     |        gate to Shah Shudja, son of Mahommad ibn Muzaffar, and Abu Ishac
 6 Pre     |           1357, he was given up to Mahommad, who sent him to Shiraz
 7 Pre     |           the sons or grandsons of Mahommad did not suffer imprisonment
 8 Pre     |         the hands of his brothers. Mahommad himself was the first to
 9 Pre     |         light he had kindled (i.e. Mahommad's son, Shah Shudja), through
10 Pre     |          and pitiless man was this Mahommad, brave in battle, wise in
11 Pre     |           criminals brought before Mahommad while the Amir was engaged
12 Pre     |            own hand. "No," replied Mahommad, "but I think that the number
13 Pre     |           scarcely less cruel than Mahommad. In a fit of drunkenness
14 Pre     |           which the descendants of Mahommad ibn Muzaffar were not deficient,
15 Pre     |            India after the time of Mahommad; some that it was a development
16 Pre     |            the great perversion of Mahommad's teaching.~Baron Sylvestre
17 Pre     |            true representatives of Mahommad. They read the Koran by
18 Pre     |        constantly insisted upon by Mahommad. That the soul, when it
19 Pre     | responsibility for his actions.[1] Mahommad more especially, as Count
20 Pre     |            of their teaching. When Mahommad exclaims, "There are times
21 XVI(*)  |            stands in the palace of Mahommad, though a branch of it will
22 XXX(*)  |          the Koran was revealed to Mahommad, and it is he who, hovering
23 XXXIV(*)|          by the angels, is told by Mahommad in the following terms: "
24 XL(*)   |          arts. Tradition says that Mahommad, whenever he looked upon