and crowds of people set out; it is reported that the caravan lost property valued at two million dinars. Al-ʿĀdil’s daughter Ḍayfa was escorted in state to al-Ẓāhir, the lord of Aleppo, who married her for a dowry of fifty thousand dinars. Her trousseau was carried on three hundred camels, fifty mules, and accompanied by fifty maidservants, and the groom presented her with jewels worth three hundred thousand dirhams.

Albān, the lord of Acre, seized Antioch and launched raids against the Turkmen. He then stormed Būra (1) in the Egyptian province, sacked it, but the Turkmen fell upon him by night, killed him, and slew his horsemen.

609 AH: The greatest pitched battle in al-Andalus took place, known as the Battle of al-ʿUqāb, between al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Muʾminī and the Franks. Victory was granted, yet a great many were martyred.

610 AH: Abū Shāmah relates that in this year Khwarazm Shah won his freedom from captivity. He resolved to reconnoitre the Tatars in person, entered their camp disguised as one of them with three companions, and they were captured. Two were beaten to death under torture, while Khwarazm Shah and another man were branded; the pair escaped during the night (2).

The Turkmen killed Īdighmish, ruler of Rayy and Hamadan; the Caliph was greatly pained, and Minkalī’s authority was firmly established and expanded.

611 AH: Khwarazm Shah seized Kirmān, Makrān, and Sind. The Friday sermon was proclaimed in his name in Hormuz and Halawāt. He would spend the summers in Samarqand, and whenever he advanced on a town, news of his approach arrived before he did.