"The Alcoran says the highest dignity man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of his religi…"

"God, who was pleased to purge the world, made use of a medicine which was both sweet and bitter, to wit the clemency …"

"It is better to be at the right place with ten men than absent with ten thousand."

"[T]here arose in my heart the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels, and to become a ghází; for it had re…"

"Those of the inhabitants who were left died (of famines and pestilence), while for two months not a bird moved wing i…"

"They met near a city called Augury, where they fought desperately. Weyasit had quite thirty thousand men of White Tar…"

"As specimens of those acts [atrocities] mention may be made of his massacre of the people of Sistan 1383–4, when he c…"

"The riches of India tempted him, and the weakness of the Delhi government provided him with a favorable opportunity. …"

"Their first conqueror was Tamerlane himself—more properly Timur-i-lang—a Turk who had accepted Islam as an admirable …"

"The Koran emphasizes that the highest dignity to which man may attain is to wage war in person upon the enemies of th…"