and that he had pacified the dominion of Iraq, restored al-Ṭāʾiʿ to his residence, and that ʿIzz al-Dawla was in rebellion. His father became angry and said to the messenger, “Tell him: Did you set out to support my nephew, or to seize his kingdom?” Thereupon he released ʿIzz al-Dawla and withdrew to Fars (1).

Al-Ṭāʾiʿ next married Lady Shahnāz, the daughter of ʿIzz al-Dawla, for a dower of one hundred thousand dinars (2). The drought grew so severe that a kurr (a large measure of grain) was sold for one hundred and seventy dinars (3)(4).

At this same time war was unremitting between Jawhar al-Muʿizzī (5) and Haftakīn (6) in Syria; they fought twelve engagements. Another battle took place between ʿIzz al-Dawla and ʿAḍud al-Dawla, during which a beardless mamluk belonging to ʿIzz al-Dawla was captured. ʿIzz lost his wits over him: he wept, refused food, and abased himself in begging for the young man’s release until he became a laughing-stock, even offering two professional songstress-slaves as his ransom (7).

In 365 AH Jamīla, the daughter of the ruler of Mosul, performed the pilgrimage. She travelled with four hundred camels and numerous palanquins—no one knew in which of them she was—and she freed five hundred slaves.