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136 BAGHDAD. 1,30
Ki-tz'i-"ni, which there is some reason for identifying with Ghazni, was only a hundred and twenty
stages from Ma-lo-pa. The probahle explanation appears to be that his informant had travelled
from Merbat to Baghdad, but had only the vaguest notion of Ki-tz'i-ni. Confer this chapter with
our author's chapter on Ta-ts'in (supra p. 102 seqq.).
2) Since the remark about the number of generations during which the throne has been 5
transmitted does not occur in the Ling-wai-tai-ta, we may look upon it as a clue as to the time
when Chau Ju-kua collected his information. In calculating the number of generations we
cannot, of course, go beyond the Abbaside dynasty, because our text distinctly refers to a
descendant of Mohammed as caliph of Baghdad. On the other hand the Arab, or Persian, traveller
who supplied the information cannot have ignored the several caliphs who held the throne before JO
the Abbasides. From a genealogical point of view we have therefore to sta,Tt from the one
ancestor in whom the several dynasties, including the early rival chiefs of the Koreish tribe,
united Mohammed the Prophet's ancestor Kusai, who represents the first generation in the following
table derived from Lane-Poole's The Mohammedan Dynasties, 10—15, and Sir William
Muir's The Life of Mahomet, 3* ed. p. XCV. 15
Generation 1 Kugai (fifth cent. A. D.)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
U.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
'Abd-Al-Dar
(headed » rival honso
of the Eoroish tribe) Eashim
I
'Abd-al-Mutfalib
Abd-Manaf
'Abd-Allah; Abu-Talib; "Abbas
Mohammed the Prophet
_ I
Fatimah = Ali
Mohammed;
I
12. Musta in;
Hasan Husain
17. Muktafi
22. Mustakfi
'Abd-Allab
,
I
'All
Mohammed
1. Abu-'l-'Abbas; 2. Mansur
3. Mahdi
4. Hadi; 5. Eashid; Mansur;
6. Amin; 7. Ma'mun; 8. Mu'ta§im
9. Wathik;
14. Muhtadi;
10. Mutawakkil
'Abd-Shams
I
Omaiya
Omaiyad Dynasty 20
Ibrahim
11. Muntasir; 18. Mu'tazz; 15. Mu'tamid; Muwaffak
20. Radi; 21. Muttaki;
29. Mustarshid;
30. Rashid;
Ibn-al-Mu'tazz 16. Mu'tadid 30
18. Muktadir 19. Kahir
25. Kadir;
26. Ka'im
Jahirat-al-din
I
27. Muktadi
28. Mustazhir
31. Muktafi
32. Mustanjid
33. Mustadi
I
34. Na§ir
35. Zahir
36. Mustan^ir
23. Muti'
24. Ta'i'
37. Musta'^im (1242—1258 A. D.)
25
35
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