—fear and hunger, together with the loss of property, lives, and harvests. Then Sultan Muḥammad slipped out of Isfahān in flight; his brother dispatched the mamluk Īyāz after him, but he could not seize him, and Muḥammad escaped unharmed.

Ibn al-Jawzī said (1): “In Ṣafar of that year, the honorific titles of the Chief Judge Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Dāmaghānī were augmented; he was now styled Tāj al-Islām (Crown of Islam).” (2)

In Rabīʿ al-Awwal the Friday sermon in Baghdad dropped the mention of the sultans, limiting itself to naming the caliph and praying for him. Later the two brothers Barkiyāruq and Muḥammad met: Muḥammad was again routed, after which they made peace (3).

That same year King Duqāq ibn Tutush ibn Malik Shāh, ruler of Damascus, captured the city of al-Raḥba.

Also in this year Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Khujandī (4), the preacher of Rayy, was killed. He had been among the foremost Shāfiʿī scholars—a traditionist, jurist, and teacher. A Rāfiḍī ʿAlawī slew him during the turmoil. He was a learned and virtuous man (5), and Niẓām al-Mulk used to visit and honor him.

Khumārtakīn led the people in the pilgrimage.

Among the notable deaths of the year was Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī [ibn ʿUbayd Allāh] ibn Sawār (6), Abū Ṭāhir the Qurʾān-reciter, author of works on the sciences of recitation. He was reliable, trustworthy, and knowledgeable in this field; he had lived beyond eighty years—may Allah have mercy on him.

Abū al-Maʿālī (7) was one of the righteous ascetics endowed with miracles and spiritual unveilings. He devoted himself to worship and shunned worldly things, wearing only a single shirt in both summer and winter; when the cold became severe he would drape a waist-wrapper over his shoulders. It was related that he was afflicted