and a vast host besides. (1) During this very campaign (2) the prince, the ruler (4) of Antioch, was among those (3) who were killed, and many of their fortresses were taken—praise and gratitude belong to Allah for His favour.

He had sought the help of Muʿīn al-Dīn Unur, the atabeg of Damascus, who dispatched a detachment of his army under the command of Emir Mujāhid al-Dīn Bāzān ibn Māmin (5), the deputy of Ṣarkhad; they fought with outstanding bravery. The poets (6) composed a great deal of verse about this expedition—among them Ibn al-Qaysarānī and others—and Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū Shāma has recorded them in al-Rawḍatayn (7).

On Wednesday, the third of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, Abū al-Muẓaffar Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Hubayra was appointed vizier to the caliph, granted the honorific ʿAwn al-Dīn, and invested with robes of office.

In Rajab, Malakshāh ibn Maḥmūd marched on Baghdad with a company of amirs, among them ʿAlī ibn Dubays and a group of Turkmens and others. They requested that the Friday khuṭbah be delivered in his name, but the caliph refused. Letters went back and forth repeatedly. The caliph then wrote to Sultan Masʿūd urging him to come, yet he delayed; the belt grew tight and the rent widened beyond the patcher’s reach (8). King Sanjar wrote to his nephew Masʿūd threatening him if he did not hasten to the caliph. Masʿūd did not arrive until the closing days of the year, whereupon all those evils were dispelled and turned wholly into joy.

That same year the earth was rocked by a violent earthquake. The ground heaved ten times, a mountain in Ḥulwān was rent asunder, the Bahruzī ribāṭ (9) collapsed, and many people died of barsām (10) (brain fever); those stricken uttered not a word before they expired.

In this year as well, Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī ibn Zankī, ruler of Mosul, died. His brother Quṭb al-Dīn Mawdūd ibn Zankī succeeded him and married his brother’s bride—whose marriage had not yet been consummated—the lady Khātūn, daughter of Tamurtāsh ibn Ilghāzī ibn Artuq, lord of—