The History of the Forty Vezirs (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with couplets and stanzas, with flowery expressions and heart-expanding graces, and have made it, bride-like, a fair, heart-resting sight for the eyes of the beholders of the outer and the inner, to the end that the King, bidding it be read, may hear on what wise were the stories of those by-gone monarchs, and know how that this tyrant Sphere hath crushed certain amongst them under foot. To proceed: One day when that just king, Sultan Mahmiid the son of Sebuktekin, was conversing with his vezirs, some of those ministers, radiant of understanding, made mention of kings who had come into the world and departed, and died and passed away. And that Sultan, praiseworthy of disposition and auspicious of action, asked what were the names of those kings. And a vezir replied, " It is so long a time since those kings passed to the Palace of the Hereafter, that the name of not one in a thousand is known; it is only said, ' at such and such a time there was a king.'" Then said the Sultan, " Do ye contrive me a plan that my name shall be remembered in thepalace of the earth, and my fame be celebrated till the Resurrection Day." The vezirs said, " Though you should set about the building of a great palace, in the course of ages it would fall in ruins, and your name should not dure; neither would it be mentioned in other lands, and so your fame should not be celebrated." And they all said different things, but nothing was deemed suitable. Now Sultan Mahmud had a favourite attendant named Ayaz who was exceeding resourceful, and at length he said, "Let a book be written in the name of my king, that it may remain until the Resurrection Day, and'pass from land to land, and be read; and by means of that book will the noble name of my king be remembered even till the end of time, and mentioned wit...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with couplets and stanzas, with flowery expressions and heart-expanding graces, and have made it, bride-like, a fair, heart-resting sight for the eyes of the beholders of the outer and the inner, to the end that the King, bidding it be read, may hear on what wise were the stories of those by-gone monarchs, and know how that this tyrant Sphere hath crushed certain amongst them under foot. To proceed: One day when that just king, Sultan Mahmiid the son of Sebuktekin, was conversing with his vezirs, some of those ministers, radiant of understanding, made mention of kings who had come into the world and departed, and died and passed away. And that Sultan, praiseworthy of disposition and auspicious of action, asked what were the names of those kings. And a vezir replied, " It is so long a time since those kings passed to the Palace of the Hereafter, that the name of not one in a thousand is known; it is only said, ' at such and such a time there was a king.'" Then said the Sultan, " Do ye contrive me a plan that my name shall be remembered in thepalace of the earth, and my fame be celebrated till the Resurrection Day." The vezirs said, " Though you should set about the building of a great palace, in the course of ages it would fall in ruins, and your name should not dure; neither would it be mentioned in other lands, and so your fame should not be celebrated." And they all said different things, but nothing was deemed suitable. Now Sultan Mahmud had a favourite attendant named Ayaz who was exceeding resourceful, and at length he said, "Let a book be written in the name of my king, that it may remain until the Resurrection Day, and'pass from land to land, and be read; and by means of that book will the noble name of my king be remembered even till the end of time, and mentioned wit...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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First published

2012

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246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

102

ISBN-13

978-0-217-38974-7

Barcode

9780217389747

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0-217-38974-0



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