so he withdrew in something close to a rout. The people of Jerusalem held out against him for a while, but he eventually retook the city, slew and rebelled, committed every abomination, and butchered the qadi of Jerusalem together with the witnesses in cold blood⦗1⦘.
In 471 AH Taj al-Dawlah Tutush the Seljuk entered Damascus⦗2⦘, killed Atsiz, and endeared himself to the populace⦗3⦘.
Around the same time Sulaymān ibn Qutulmish the Seljuk gained control of Caesarea, Konya, and other territories on those frontiers. He then marched with his armies against Antioch, laid siege to it, and wrested it from the Byzantines; they had held it for more than a hundred and ten years⦗4⦘.
Meanwhile al-Andalus was convulsed by exhausting wars. The Battle of az-Zallāqah was fought between the Franks and the ruler of al-Andalus, al-Muʿtamid ibn ʿAbbād, reinforced by the Commander of the Muslims, Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn, at the head of the veiled Berber hosts. The enemy numbered fifty thousand, and it is said that only three hundred of them escaped alive⦗5⦘.
Sultan Malikshāh⦗6⦘ captured Aleppo and the Jazīrah⦗7⦘, and was then brought back to Baghdad⦗8⦘.