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The Mulfuzat Timury: Memoirs of Timur

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Appendix VI

The proper title of the 67th Chapter of the Korān, is Al Mūlk, but is more generally known by the name of Tebarek Allezy, and is very much admired by the Muselmāns, the following is the verse given in page 26.

آمِنتُم مَن فِي السّمَا ٱن يَحْسِف بِکُم آلآرضَ فَاِذا هي تَمُوْرُ‎

It is not meant by this, that he was the first who bore the name of Timūr, as it occurs previously to this period, in the Moghul history; Arab Shāh says that it means Iron in the Tūrky language; he employs two lines to give the true orthography of the word, but acknowledges that the pronunciation has been changed in the course of time.

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