The right hand of the dynasty (of the Khalif) from the Khalif as a recognition of the legitmacy of his rule resembling the investiture of the German Emperor by the Pope in the Middle Ages. [...] 2 (text p. 203 20) the following terms : The strongest of the pillars (of Islam) the pattern of a Sultan Mahmtid the lion of the world and the rarity of the aye may God's mercy be with hint." Whoever knows the style of Oriental authors when speaking of crowned heads the style of their prefaces which attains the height of absurdity at the court of the Moghul emperors at Delhi will agree [...] The tenor of this preface taken from the manuscript of the Royal Library in Berlin is as follows :- To those wholead the community of the believers in the place of the Prophet and by the help of the Word of God belongs "the king the lord majestic and venerated the helper of the representative of God the furtherer of the law of God the protector of the slaves of God who punishes the enemies [...] the mean places of the planets as fixed by Brahmagupta whilst in other things he deviated from him giving the equations of the planetary revolutions according to the theory o' the Persians and the declination of the sun according to Ptolemy. [...] Some of the books that had been translated under Ttirdautlflor's the first Abbaside Khalifs were extant in the library e b;3fore of Alberuni when he wrote the 'hiStKoC the Brahmthe siddhanta or Sindhind and the Khandakhadyaku or Arkand in the editions of Alfazari and of Yakilb Ibn Tanik the Caraka in the edition of 'All Ibn lain and the Paficatantra or Kalila and Diinna.
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