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Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi
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“The Alcoran says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religion. Mahomet advises the same thing, according to the tradition of the Mussulman doctors: wherefore the great Temur always strove to exterminate the infidels, as much to acquire that glory, as to signalise himself by the greatness of his conquests.”
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500–1454) said by 1454 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 4, ch. 2 (tr. J. Darby, 1723)
“That night they encamped in the valley. In the jungles there were many monkeys, and when night came on they entered the camp and carried off the things of the soldiers.”
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500–1454) said by 1454 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Raid into other parts of the Siwálik hills" (tr. H. M. Elliot and J. Dowson, 1871)
“God, who was pleased to purge the world, made use of a medicine which was both sweet and bitter, to wit the clemency and the wrath of the incomparable Temur; and to that effect inspired in him an ambition to conquer all Asia and to expel the several tyrants thereof. He established peace and security in this part of the world so that a single man might carry a silver basin filled with gold from the east of Asia to the west. But yet he could not accomplish this great affair without bringing in some measure upon the places he conquered destruction, captivity and plunder, which are the concomitants of victory.”
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500–1454) said by 1454 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 6, ch. 26 (tr. J. Darby, 1723)