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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Note 179 — Terminal Essay.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

De Sacy makes the “Kalandar” order originate in A.D. 1150; but the Shaykh Sharíf bú Ali Kalandar died in A.D. 1323–24. In Sind the first Kalandar, Osmán-i-Marwándí surnamed Lál Sháhbáz, the Red Goshawk, from one of his miracles, died and was buried at Sehwán in A.D. 1274: see my “History of Sindh” chapt. viii. for details. The dates therefore run wild.

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