{"book":"adl0970","page":66,"text":"33\n\nPersia and provide for the future tranquillity of\nthe country by helping some one whom they\nmight think most deserving to the Persian throne.\nAshraff thus in the very beginning of his\nreign found himself confronted with powerful\nenemies on all sides. But he dreaded the\nturbulent Afghan chiefs most of all and made\nup his mind to get rid of them before turning\nhis attention to foreign aggression. His first\nmeasure was to put to death Ilyas the leader\nof the guards and the ambitious and haughty\nAssadullah and several other Afghan chiefs whose\ninfluence he dreaded. But through this rash act\nhe lost the sympathy and co-operation of some\nof his best friends. After feeling secure from\ninternal trouble by these drastic measures,\nAshraff turned his attention towards the Turks,\nwho by this time had made themselve master\nof all the provinces assigned to them by the\npartition treaty. Ashraff sent an embassy to\nConstantinople protesting against the horrible\ncrime of conspiring with a Christian power against\ntheir co-religionists and making war upon a Sunni\nmonarch simply to restore a Shia dynasty to\npower. The Court was not a little embarrassed","chars":1153,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00066.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/66","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/66","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."}}