{"book":"adl0970","page":41,"text":"10\n\nwas a dangerous person and he had removed\nMir Vais from Kandahar simply to get rid of an\ninfluential chief, who could, by his fidelity to the\nCrown, baffle his projects.\n\nNot satisfied with these successes, Mir Vais\nKhan now turned his attention towards the union\nof the Afghan tribes, for he knew that without\ntheir co-operation the execution of his exalted\ndesigns was not possible. He had already won\nthe affection of his countrymen by his intelligence\nand generosity, but to him this was not sufficient\nfor an enterprise of such magnitude. In order\nto cement further the bond of union among the\nvarious tribes, he tried to give it a religious tinge.\nWith this in view, he decided to go to Mecca on\npilgrimage and obtain a decree from the learned\n(Ulamas), permitting him to take up arms against\nthe Persians and raising his revolt in the form of a\nJehad (religious war). He approached the King\nto allow him to go to Mecca. The request was\ngranted without difficulty. Mir Vais Khan left\nfor Mecca and after obtaining the decree, returned\nto Isfahan.\n\nIt was at this time that an ambassador from\nPeter the Great arrived at the frontier post of","chars":1149,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00041.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/41","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/41","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_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."}}