humiliation; for when Khwarazm-Shah was routed last year, the Ismaʿilis informed the Tatars of his weakness. A detachment hastened toward him at Tabriz, but he dared not face them; they took Maragha and laid it waste, while he retreated to Amida. There the Tatars fell upon him, his troops scattered in every direction, and even the peasants and the Kurds set upon them. The Tatars received Siʿird under terms of safe-conduct, then—as is their custom—betrayed the pact, and went on to seize Tanza (1) and the district of Nisibin.

In the same year al-Ashraf imprisoned, at ʿAzzata (2), ʿAli al-Hariri, and a group of jurists issued a ruling that he be put to death (3).

The Ashrafiyyah Dar al-Hadith was founded in Damascus.

That year the oculist known as al-Tāj was captured; he had murdered several people by stealth in his own house. When the stench filled the alley, he was crucified.

In 629 AH (4): Jalal al-Din Khwarazm-Shah, son of ʿAlaʾ al-Din, was defeated in the mountains, and a Kurd—avenging his brother—killed him (5).

The caliph’s troops, together with the ruler of Irbil, advanced against the Tatars, who fled before them.

The vizier Muʾayyad al-Din al-Qummi and his son were arrested. His authority had lasted twenty-three years under the title of deputy to the vizierate, though he never actually held the vizierate itself. In his place Shams al-Din Ibn al-Naqid was appointed, and Ibn al-Naqid’s former post in the ustadh-dariyyah was given to Ibn al-ʿAlqami.

In 630 AH (6): al-Kamil besieged Amida and captured it from al-Malik al-Masʿud.