Sultan Muḥammad arrested his vizier Saʿd al-Mulk, had him crucified in Isfahan, and appointed Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Mulk as vizier.
The Ismaʿili commander at the fortress of Isfahan, Aḥmad ibn Ghaṭṭāsh, was killed. Ibn al-Athīr relates: “His followers slew a multitude beyond reckoning…,” and he continues:
Sultan Muḥammad then demolished the fortress. His father Malikshāh had built it on a mountain, and it is said the construction had cost more than two million dinars. Ibn Ghaṭṭāsh contrived to seize it and held it for twelve years (1).
Caliph al-Mustazhir dismissed his vizier Abū al-Qāsim ibn Jahīr and installed Hibat Allāh ibn al-Muṭṭalib in his place (2).
The Seljuq ruler of Konya, Qilij Arslān ibn Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish, drowned (3).
In the year 501 AH the lord of al-Ḥilla, Sayf al-Dawla Ṣadaqa ibn Manṣūr ibn Dubays al-Asadī—styled “King of the Arabs,” who had established al-Ḥilla as a Rafidite stronghold—was killed in a battle with Sultan Muḥammad ibn Malikshāh (4).
That same year Tughtekin set out with the army of Damascus, routed the Franks, and captured the lord of Tiberias, Germas. Baldwin the dog laid siege to Tyre and built a fortress opposite it, then offered him