—a venerated idol whose devotees, in their ignorance, claim it has existed for 300,000 years. From the booty we collected 20,000,000 dirhams, and we set aside the khums, the obligatory one-fifth, from the captives; that portion alone came to 53,000 souls. We also reviewed 356 elephants (1).

Robes of sultanic investiture were dispatched by al-Qādir bi’Llāh to Qawām al-Dawlah, confirming him as governor of Kirmān (2).

In Damascus, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, the designated heir of al-Ḥākim, served as deputy. Al-Ḥākim himself was killed in Egypt—may Allah have relieved the Muslims of him—in the year 411 AH (3).

In 414 AH King Musharraf al-Dawlah advanced toward Baghdad from the direction of Wāsiṭ and asked al-Qādir bi’Llāh to come out to greet him. The caliph met him at al-Ṭayyār, an honour he had granted no king before. Musharraf al-Dawlah arrived, ascended from Zubzuba to al-Ṭayyār (4), kissed the ground, and was seated upon a chair (5). Musharraf al-Dawlah, son of Bahāʾ al-Dawlah, died in 416 AH, whereupon his treasuries were plundered (6).

The Friday sermon was then delivered in the name of Jalāl al-Dawlah, but the emirs soon shifted their allegiance to King Abū Kālījār (7) and praised his name; he had already been the heir apparent of his father, Sulṭān al-Dawlah, so the sermon was proclaimed for him in Baghdad. The minting of currency in Baghdad increased enormously (8), and Jalāl al-Dawlah overran Ahwāz, plundering from it property whose value amounted to