and the al-kūsāt (1) and the troops. He was instructed to wrest it from Yazid ibn Marwan, to have the khuṭbah (Friday sermon) proclaimed in his own name, and to have his name stamped on the coinage. He persisted until he had snatched it from their hands, and their rule was obliterated at his hand, as will be explained below.

The vizierate of the caliphate was taken up by Abū al-Fath al-Muẓaffar, son of Raʾīs al-Ruʾasāʾ; he was then dismissed in Shaʿbān, and Abū Shujāʿ Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn was appointed vizier with the honorific title Ẓahīr al-Dīn.

In Jumādā al-Ūlā (2) Muʾayyid al-Mulk invested Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Maʾmūn with the professorship of the Niẓāmiyyah after the death of Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī—may Allah have mercy on him.

In the same year the inhabitants of Ḥarrān (3) rebelled against Sharaf al-Dawlah Muslim ibn Quraysh. He besieged the town, took it, demolished its wall, crucified its qāḍī Ibn Jalabah (4), and fastened him to the rampart.

In Shawwāl Abū al-Maḥāsin ibn Abī al-Riḍā was killed because he had slandered Niẓām al-Mulk before the Sultan, saying: “Hand them over to me and I shall extract one million dinars from them for you.” Niẓām al-Mulk thereupon laid out an imposing banquet, summoned his mamluks—who numbered in their thousands—and began saying to the Sultan: “All of this is from your own wealth; whatever I have endowed of madrasas (colleges) and ribāṭs (hostels for wayfarers) is but gratitude to you in this world and reward for you in the Hereafter [and my wealth and everything I possess are before you; I would be content with a patched cloak and a hermitage].” At that the Sultan ordered Abū al-Maḥāsin to be put to death, though he had been favored, intimate, and highly esteemed (5). He also dismissed Abū al-Maḥāsin’s father from the chancery of the ṭughrā (imperial monogram) and appointed Muʾayyid al-Mulk, son of Niẓām al-Mulk, in his stead.

That year the amir Khitlug the Turk, fief-holder of Kufa, led the people on the pilgrimage.

[Among the notables who died this year] was Shaykh Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (6)—Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrāzī al-Fayrūzābādī. Fayrūzābād is a village in the province of Fars, though some say it is the city of Jūr (7).