Hamdallah Mustawfi Quotes

b. 1280

Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini[a] (Persian: حمدالله مستوفى قزوینی, romanized: Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet. He lived during the last era of the Mongol Ilkhanate, and the interregnum that followed.

Historians

Also known as: Hamdu’llãh bin ‘Abû Bakr bin Hamd bin Nasr Mustaufî, Tãrîkh-i-Guzîda

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He now attacked the fort of Bhim, where was a temple of the Hindus. He was victorious, and obtained much wealth, including about a hundred idols of gold and silver. One of the golden images, which weighed a million mishkals, the Sultan appropriated to the decoration of the Mosque of Ghazni, so that the ornaments of the doors were of gold instead of iron.

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