in the conduct of affairs. Duqāq ibn Tutush had been at his father’s side when the latter was killed, so he hurried to Damascus and received the city from the amir Sawtakin,1 whom his father had appointed as deputy. He then made Abū’l-Qāsim al-Khwarazmī his vizier. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Tutush took control of Aleppo, with Junāḥ al-Dawla al-Ḥusayn ibn Iʿtikīn supervising the administration of his realm. As for Riḍwān ibn Tutush, he became lord of Ḥamāh, and the line of Banū Riḍwān in that city is traced back to him.

[On Friday, the nineteenth] of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the khuṭbah was delivered for the heir-apparent Abū Manṣūr al-Faḍl ibn al-Mustazhir, and he was granted the honorific Dhakhīrat al-Dīn (Treasure of the Faith).

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the vizier ʿAmīd al-Mulk ibn Jahīr went out and marked out a wall around the ḥarīm. He allowed the common folk to help with the work and to amuse themselves, whereupon they displayed many reprehensible acts, the follies of weak minds, and disgraceful, repugnant behavior. Ibn ʿAqīl sent him a note containing harsh language and vehement censure.2

[In Ramaḍān Sultan Barkiyāruq marched out, and one Fadāwī3 attacked him but failed to reach him. Fadāwī was captured and punished; he informed on two others, but they would not confess, so all three were executed. A palace eunuch then arrived from the caliph to congratulate the sultan on his safety.]4

In Dhū’l-Qaʿdah Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī left Baghdad for Jerusalem, giving up his chair at the Niẓāmiyyah, renouncing the world, and donning coarse garments after fine ones. His brother took his place in teaching. In the following year he performed the ḥajj and then returned to his homeland. During this period he composed his book Ihyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), and every day great crowds gathered at the ribāṭ to hear him read it.

On the Day of ʿArafah robes of honor were bestowed on the jurist Abū’l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Hibat Allāh al-Sībī,5 who was given the title Sharaf al-Quḍāt (Distinction of the Judges) and reinstated to the judgeship of the ḥarīm and other districts.

In this same year the people of al-Karkh6 made peace with the other quarters; they visited and kept in touch with one another, ate together, and even drank together—an occurrence regarded as one of the marvels of the time.