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Amazon.com   p. 126   Chelebī Emīr ‘Ārīf, Jelālu-’d-Dīn.
(Ninety pages of the volume by Eflākī give more than two hundred
anecdotes of the acts and miracles, of various kinds, of this
illustrious grandson of Jelālu-’d-Dīn, the teacher and friend of
the author, who vouches as an eyewitness for the truth and
correctness of some of the narratives.  The Emīr ‘Ārif passed
the far greater portion of his life in travelling about to
various cities in central and eastern Asia Minor, and north-
western Persia, countries then subject to the great Khāns,
descendants of Jengīz. He appears to have been of a more
energetic or bellicose character than his father, and to have
ruled with vigour during his short Rectorship.)   On the last
day but one of the period of the greater pilgrimage at Mekka,
the eve of the Festival of Sacrifices, the ninth of the month of
Zū-’l-Hijja, a.h. 717 (11th February, a.d. 1313), the Emīr
‘Ārif, and the historian Eflākī, his disciple,