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Excerpt from The Fall of Abd-Ul-Hamid Parts of this book have already appeared, in the outline at least, in the Fortnightly Review, the Dublin Review, the New York Times, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun (one of the leading papers in Japan), the Morning Leader, Daily Mail, Chicago Daily News, Times of India, Civil and Military Gazette, North China Daily News, Japan Chronicle, Otago Daily Times, and T. P.'s Weekly. I must return thanks to Mr. Allan Ramsay, of Constantinople, without whose kind encouragement this work would never have been begun, and to various Turkish friends, especially Salih Keramet Bey, to whom I am indebted for many excellent translations from the Turkish. Mr. William Petrie Wa...
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aAABD-UL-HAMID, the author of the following poems, was born at Mashu Khel, a small village belonging to the Kudrizi clan, or branch, of the Afghan tribe of Mohmand, one of the purely Afghan tribes at present dwelling in the Pesahawar district. Hence, Hamid, like Rahman, was a Mohmand, but of a different clan. The exact year of his birth I have been unable to discover, but it was certainly about the middle of the last half of the seventeenth century. He was brought up to the priesthood, and is said to have been endowed with a considerable amount of learning, which he acquired at Pesah? war; and students from all parts of the surrounding districts sought his instruction. a
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