That same year the use of clipped gold (qarāḍat al-dhahab) as a medium of exchange in Baghdad was abandoned; dirhams were minted instead, ten dirhams being made equivalent to one Imami dinar.

The Tatars devastated the lands of Irbil and Mosul—killing the people—and they took Isfahan by the sword. Surely to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. Alarmed, the caliph mobilised and spent vast sums of money.

Ibn Muqbil was dismissed from the chief judgeship of Iraq and from his chair at the Mustanṣiriyyah College. Abū al-Manāqib al-Zanjānī was appointed professor, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Lamaghānī became judge.

That same year al-Kāmil and al-Ashraf marched out and regained Harran and Edessa (Ruha) from the ruler of Rūm.

The Tatars reached Sinjar, killing, capturing and enslaving its inhabitants.

Toward the end of the year the ruler of Rūm mustered his forces, besieged Harran, and the townsfolk were sorely tried.

The Franks sacked Córdoba by the sword. This city, the mother of al-Andalus, had remained a land of Islam ever since the Muslims first opened it in the reign of al-Walīd.

In 634 AH (1): the lord of Aleppo, King al-ʿAzīz son of al-Ẓāhir son of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, died; so too did the ruler of Rūm, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Kayqubād. During the same year the Tatars took Irbil by the sword.

In 635 AH (2): Sultan King al-Ashraf died in Damascus. His brother al-Kāmil assumed control of the city but soon died there as well, after he and his brother al-Ṣāliḥ ʿImād al-Dīn had fought one another for the throne, leaving the populace exhausted.

After al-Kāmil, authority passed to al-Jawād, but his determination waned and he handed the city over to King al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb ibn al-Kāmil, who thereupon assumed the sultanate.