to invest Mosul; he remained before the city for several months, and what transpired is beyond all telling.

257 – al-Muʿaẓẓam al-Ḥalabī, Abū al-Mafākhir Turanshah b. Yūsuf b. Ayyūb

Al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam, Abū al-Mafākhir Turanshah, son of the great mujahid-sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dunyā wa’l-Dīn Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, the last of his brothers still living.

Born: 577 AH.

He studied in Damascus under Yaḥyā al-Thafaqī and Ibn Ṣadaqah al-Ḥarrānī.

ʿAbd Allāh b. Barrī granted him a licence to transmit.

Our teacher al-Dimyāṭī selected for him a section that he himself had heard from him, and Sunqur al-Qaḍāʾī, the judge Shuqayr Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh, al-Tāj Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Naṣībī, together with others, heard it from him while he was still upright in his conduct—for he did partake of intoxicants.

He was the senior figure of his household, and Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Yūsuf treated him with deference and veneration, for he was his grandfather’s brother. He therefore disposed of the treasuries and the mamluks. He had taken part in more than one battle; he was a brave, intelligent, and cunning horseman. For many years he had commanded the Aleppan troops, and it was he who led them when they crushed the Khwārazmians in 638 AH near the Euphrates. On that day he was taken captive, grievously wounded; his men fled, and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, son of al-Malik al-Afḍal ʿAlī b. Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, was killed. And when he had seized—