rebuilding Jaffa, and they asked for a truce. A series of minor engagements followed. The accursed Franks then made for Jerusalem, where the sultan was present, and he spared no effort in strengthening its defences.

That year the ustadh Dāriyah ibn Yūnus—formerly vizier—was appointed to office.

In the same year the sorcerer Suhrawardi appeared in Aleppo; the jurists issued a ruling that he be put to death, so he was killed by starvation and his corpse was burned. He was a Simawian, a dissolute philosopher. (1)

In 588 AH the Franks began rebuilding Ascalon.

Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ghūrī met the Indian armies, routed them, and killed their king in the battle.

The English king raided an Egyptian force at Ramla; on his return he overran and plundered them—unto Allah belongs the decree. A truce was then concluded for three years and eight months. The sultan accepted it, biting his hand in vexation, yet the Franks had grown numerous and his own troops were weary. Several Muslim kings swore to the treaty alongside the sultan, and a number of Frankish kings did likewise. (2)

In that same year the ruler of Rūm, the Seljuk Qilij Arslan, was killed, and Buktemur, lord of Khilāṭ, was assassinated by the Ismāʿīlīs. (3)

Sultan Ṭughril marched on Rayy, introduced reprehensible innovations there, and killed many Muslims; he then returned to Hamadān, where half his body became paralysed.

That year also Shihāb al-Dīn, the sultan of Ghazna, captured territories in India.