in the Egyptian lands, carrying with him a rescript (1) from the Caliphate granting the fiefs of Darb Harun and Sarifin to King (2) Nur al-Din. These two properties had formerly belonged to his father, ʿImad al-Din Zangi. King (3) Nur al-Din intended (4) to build a madrasa in Baghdad on the bank (5) of the Tigris and to make those two places a waqf (pious endowment) for it (6), but destiny thwarted that plan (7), may Allah have mercy on him.

In the same year: many battles (8) were fought in the Khwarazm region between Sultan Shah and his enemies; the details were thoroughly chronicled (9) by Ibn al-Athir (10) and Ibn al-Saʿi.

In the same year: Mleh ibn Leon, (11) king of the Armenians, defeated the Byzantine (12) forces, captured great spoils from them, and sent a large sum of that booty to Nur al-Din together with thirty of their heads (13). Nur al-Din forwarded these to the Abbasid caliph al-Mustadiʾ bi-Amrillah.

In the same year: King Salah al-Din dispatched a detachment under the command of Qaraqush, (14) the mamluk of Taqi al-Din ʿUmar ibn Shahanshah, to the lands of Ifriqiya. They seized a considerable portion (15) of it, including the city of Tripoli of the West and several towns alongside it.

Among the notable figures who died in that year was Ildegiz (16), the Turkish (17) atabeg (18), ruler of Azerbaijan and other territories: