they also demolished his house and left no vile or hideous outrage un-perpetrated against him, even though the very emirs who did this had formerly held him in the highest esteem.

Among his poetry:

[in ṭawīl metre]
I spurned the whim of my soul while still a youth; but when the nights assailed me with grey hairs and old age,
I yielded to desire—precisely the opposite of what is fitting. Would that I had been created old and then (1) returned to youth!

[Then the year 648 AH began]

On Wednesday, the third of Muḥarram, al-Muʿaẓẓam Turanshah routed the Franks at the port of Dumyat (Damietta), killing thirty thousand of them—some said one hundred thousand—and seizing immense spoils, praise be to Allah. He then executed a number of captured emirs. Among the prisoners were the King of the French (2) and his brother. The king’s cowl was sent to Damascus, where the governor wore it on the day of parade; it was made of saqirlaṭ (3) [scarlet] lined with squirrel fur. Many poets composed verses celebrating the (4) event, and groups of faqirs entered the Church of Mary, remaining there in joy at the victory (5) Allah Most High had granted over the Christians, and they almost pulled the church down.

The Christians (6) in Baalbek had rejoiced when their coreligionists captured Damietta, but when this reverse befell them they blackened the faces of their icons (7). The town’s governor (8) had them rounded up and ordered the Jews to slap them. Before Muḥarram was out, the emirs killed their tutor’s son, al-Muʿaẓẓam Turanshah, and buried him on the far bank of the Nile. May Allah have mercy on him and on his forefathers through His bounty and generosity.