depart for Isfahan with her son Jaʿfar. The Egyptian army then advanced and captured Tyre, Acre, and Jubayl (1).
Sectarian turmoil between Sunnis and Shiʿites flared up in Baghdad one episode after another, beyond all description.
In the year 483 AH Ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, head of the Ismailis, seized the citadel of Isfahan; this marked their first public emergence (2).
The Christians took control of the remainder of the island of Sicily, a large province (3).
A fierce battle was fought at Jaʿyān in al-Andalus between the Franks and the Muslims; by Allah’s aid the Muslims triumphed, and the Franks were mown down (4).
Malikshāh conquered Yemen through the agency of Janq (5), the Turkmen amir (6). The Khafājah tribe (7) plundered the Iraqi caravan, whereupon an army pursued them, killed great numbers, and they never again recovered their strength (8).
Niẓām al-Mulk died in the year 486 AH (9), and soon afterwards the Sultan himself died (10). His brother Tutush then marched from Syria to claim the sultanate, accompanied by Qasīm al-Dawlah, the lord of Antioch, and a group of rulers who had already ordered the Friday sermon in his name in their cities.
He advanced, spent lavishly, took al-Raḥbah and then Nisibis by force, killing and behaving tyrannically.
He next headed for Mosul, where its ruler Ibrāhīm ibn Quraysh joined forces with him.