Zur Problematik einiger handschriftlicher Quellen des neupersischen Namenbuches . By Nostratollah Rastegar. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophischhistorische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, Band 525. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik, Nr. 23.) pp. 48. Vienna, Verlag der

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from the date of Khusraw Khan's usurpation rather than from that ruler's downfall. It would follow too that Muhammad's accession occurred on 1 Sha'ban 724 (24 July 1324). For what it is worth, this is precisely the date furnished by an external observer writing in the 1340s, the Coptic chronicler al-Mufaddal, whose information was apparently derived from a Delhi shaykh (al-Nahj al-sadid, ed. and trans. Samira Kortantamer, Agypten und Syrien zwischen 1317 und 1341, Freiburg i. Br., 1973, text p. 27, tr. p. 104).