al-Sufi (1). When Anur died, Mujir al-Din assumed the throne outright. He then exiled the vizier to Ṣarkhad, appointed the vizier’s brother Haydara for a time, and afterward had him killed. He placed the army under the command of ʿAṭāʾ al-Baʿlabakkī, and then killed him as well.

Nur al-Din thereupon marched on Damascus; its inhabitants negotiated with him, and he entered the city under a pledge of safety. In return, he compensated Mujir al-Din with Homs, where the latter settled. Later, Nur al-Din ordered him to move to Bālis, so he went there but soon left and presented himself to the caliph, who granted him a bread allowance sufficient for seventy cavalrymen. He lived on this stipend until he died in Baghdad in the year 564 AH, at middle age.

254 – ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlawī al-Kūmī *
Sultan of the Maghrib, who bore the title “Commander of the Believers,” al-Kūmī, al-Qaysī, al-Maghribī.

Birthplace: the region of Tlemcen. His father was a maker of pottery.

It is related that he—meaning ʿAbd al-Muʾmin—used to say: “We are of Qays Ghaylān ibn Muḍar ibn Nizār; the Kūmiyya (2) have a right over us by birth, for we were brought up among them—they are my maternal uncles (3).”