{"book":"adl0957","page":162,"text":"121\n\nsettled at Qoniya (Iconium), in Asia Minor. Maulana died\nthere in 1274. His grand tomb at Qoniya may still be seen.\nRumi is one of the greatest Sofi poets of all ages.\nAmir Khusro: The father of Amir Khusro, Amir Moham-\nmad Saifud Din, came from Balkh to India and settled at\nPatiala, where Khusro was born in 1253. Khusro was a brilliant\nboy and commenced literary work at a very early age. He was\na great writer and produced a large number of works both in\nprose and poetry. There was no form of Persian poetry which he\nleft untouched and in each of these he attained singular success.\nThe Timurids (1405-1519 A. D.), like the Ghaznavids, were great\npatrons of learning and the arts. Their court at Herat was a\nresort of scholars, artists and philosophers. Behzad, the well-\nknown Oriental painter, lived at their court. One of the great-\nest writers of this age is Amir Alisher Nawai. He was born in\n1440 and received his education in the same college with his\nfuture sovereign, Sultan Hussain Mirza. He was first appointed\nas the Keeper of the Royal Seal, but was soon promoted to the\nhighest post—that of the Prime Minister of the Sultan. He was\nno less distinguished for his great learning and high statesman-\nship than for his munificent patronage of letters. He is the\nfounder of the famous Khilasiyya convent of Herat, a retreat\nfor literary men of merit. His home also was open to scholars\nof all nationalities, whom he received with every mark of respect.\nMirkhond: Mirkhond was born in 1433. His father, a\npious and learned man, lived at Balkh. After the death of his\nfather, Mirkhond went to Herat, where he succeeded in gaining\nthe favour of that celebrated patron of letters, Alisher Nawai.\nHe received every mark of kindness and encouragement from this\ndistinguished personage and began at his request his great work\non universal history, Rauzat-us-Safa in 1474 A.D. It is one of","chars":1900,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00162.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/162","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/162","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}