that bordered the lands of Qishli Khan, for he feared that the latter might seize them. Then Chinggis Khan rose up against Qishli Khan, and Qishli became pre-occupied with fighting him instead of waging war on Khwarazm-Shah. After that, there occurred (1) some astonishing events which we shall relate, God Most High willing.

In the same year the Franks intensified their raids from Tripoli against the districts around Ḥoms. Its ruler, Asad al-Din Shirkuh, was too weak to resist them, so al-Ẓāhir, the lord of Aleppo, dispatched a force that strengthened his hand against the Franks. King al-ʿĀdil likewise set out from Egypt (2) at the head of the Muslim armies and sent orders to the forces of al-Jazīrah, who joined him at ʿAkkā (Acre). He thereupon besieged the city because the Cypriots had taken (3) from the Muslim fleet several vessels (4) in which were a number of Muslims. The lord of Acre asked for safe-conduct and a treaty on condition that he release the captives, and al-ʿĀdil agreed. He then marched on and encamped by Lake Qādis (5) near Ḥoms, after which he advanced into the territory of Tripoli, where for twelve days he killed, captured, and plundered—laying waste to parts of those Tripolitan lands—until the Franks inclined to an armistice. He then returned to Damascus.

That same year the ruler of Azerbaijan, Amīr Nuṣrat al-Din Abū Bakr ibn al-Bahlūl, took the city of Marāgha (7) because it lacked a powerful sovereign; (8) its former king had died and, after him, a small boy succeeded to the throne (9) with a servant acting as regent.

On the first (10) of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, Muḥyī al-Din Abū Muḥammad Yūsuf, son of the shaykh Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Jawzī (11), appeared before the Chief Judge Abū l-Qāsim ibn al-Dāmghānī (12). The judge accepted him, appointed him market inspector over both banks of Baghdad, and invested him with a splendid black robe and a dark-blue turban. Ten days later he took his father’s place as preacher at Bāb Badr.