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About The Book : Excerpt from Institutes Political and Military : Written Originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, Improperly Called Tamerlane IN the thirty sixth year after the death of Timour, his life was again written, in Arabic, by Ahmed Ibn Arablhah, a Syrian. That author pilfered, like the former, a lively and descriptive pen: but what he gains in elegance, he lofes in truth and candour for in every page of his work may be difference the hatred of a conquered enemy, and those national prejudices which are disgraceful to an historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at this book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. About The Author : Major Davy was one of the East India Company's greatest scholars of Persian, the Mughal language of government and culture. He worked as the Persian Secretary of Warren Hastings, Governor General of Bengal (1773-1785). As well as translating official papers, he also translated many of the great works of Mughal scholarship. He died in 1784 during a voyage back to Britain. Joseph White (1745–1814) was an English orientalist and theologian, Laudian Professor of Arabic and then Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford.