{"book":"adl0970","page":67,"text":"34\n\nby the voice of these Ulamas (the learned). The\nTurks tried in vain to satisfy the Ulama's that\nthe alliance with Russia was dictated by\nnecessity, and that Ashraff had placed himself\nin the position of an enemy by refusing to\nacknowledge the supremacy of the Turkish\nEmperor as the religious head of all the Muslims.\nThey asserted that if Ashraff was a true Muslim,\nhe should come forward and tender his allegiance\nto the Porte.\n\nSoon after the Afghan deputies left Con-\nstantinople, hostilities began. Ahmad Pasha,\nwho by now had made himself master of\nMaragha and Kazwin, advanced towards Isfahan.\nWhen Ashraff learnt that in spite of his protests\na large Turkish army was heading towards\nIsfahan, he laid waste the country through which\nthe Turks were advancing. Then collecting all\nthe forces that he could command, he moved in\nthat direction with the avowed object of impeding\ntheir progress. A detachment of 2,000 Turks,\nwho had lost its way, came face to face with the\nmain Afghan force, led by Ashraff himself. The\nTurks were all cut to pieces before any substantial\nhelp could reach them. This success gave","chars":1120,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00067.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/67","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/67","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."}}