and of al-Rashid the Caliph (1), leaving it a desolate ruin (2). They then marched on Herat, slaughtered great numbers of its people, and installed their own governor over it. After that they advanced to Ghazna, where Jalal al-Din ibn Khwarizm Shah met them in battle and put them to flight. They returned to Herat, found that its inhabitants had rebelled, and exterminated them to the very last man. They subsequently rejoined their king, Chinggis Khan—may Allah curse him and them.
Chinggis Khan dispatched another contingent to the city of Khwarizm; they besieged it until they seized it by force, massacred its inhabitants (3) in a wholesale slaughter, plundered the town, and carried off its people as captives (4). They then broke the bridge that held back the waters of the Jihun (Oxus) from it, so the houses were flooded and the entire population perished; afterward they returned to Chinggis Khan while he was encamped near (5) Talaqan.
From there he sent another column toward Ghazna; Jalal al-Din ibn Khwarizm Shah engaged them again and dealt them a grievous defeat, rescuing from their hands a multitude of Muslim prisoners. He then wrote to Chinggis Khan, demanding that he come out in person to fight him. Chinggis Khan accepted and advanced against him; the two armies faced each other, but part of Jalal al-Din’s forces had already scattered, leaving no choice but to fight. They battled for three days in a clash the like of which had never before been witnessed among them (6). Eventually the troops of Jalal al-Din weakened (7) and withdrew (8); they embarked upon the River of Sind (9). The Tatars then proceeded to Ghazna and captured it (10) without toil or resistance (11). All of this—and indeed even more—took place in that same year.
In this year (12) al-Ashraf Musa (13) ibn al-ʿAdil ceded to his brother Shihab al-Din Ghazi (14) the dominion of Khilat, Mayyafarikin, the Armenian territories, and Hani (15), taking in exchange al-Ruha (Edessa) and Saruj, because he was too occupied to defend those districts while assisting his brother al-Kamil in his struggle against the Franks—may Allah curse them.