Karak and Shubak were in the hands of al-Malik al-Mughīth Fath al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn al-ʿĀdil (1) Sayf al-Dīn Abū Bakr, grandson of al-Kāmil Muḥammad ibn al-ʿĀdil al-Kabīr Sayf al-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb.

The fortresses of Ṣahyūn and Barzīn (2) were held by Emir Muẓaffar ʿUthmān ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn Mankūrūs (3).

The ruler of Hama was al-Malik al-Manṣūr, son of Taqī al-Dīn Maḥmūd, and the ruler of Homs was al-Ashraf, son of al-Manṣūr Ibrāhīm ibn Asad al-Dīn al-Nāṣir.

The ruler of Mosul was al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ (4) [Ismāʿīl] ibn al-Badr Luʾluʾ, and his brother al-Malik al-Mujāhid governed Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar.

Mardin belonged to al-Malik al-Saʿīd Najm al-Dīn Īlghāzī ibn Artuq.

The lands of Rūm were ruled by Rukn al-Dīn Qilij (5) Arslān ibn Kaykhusraw the Seljuk; he shared the throne with his brother Kaykāwus, the realm being divided equally between them.

All the remaining provinces of the East (6) were in the grip of the Tatars, the hosts of Hülägü (7).

As for Yemen, it was ruled (8) by more than one king, and the same held true (9) for the Maghrib, where every region had its own sovereign.

In this very year the Tatars raided Aleppo (10). They were confronted by its governor Ḥusām al-Dīn [al-Juqandar] al-ʿAzīzī, together with al-Manṣūr, lord of Hama, and al-Ashraf, lord of Homs. The engagement took place to the north of Homs (11), near the grave of Khālid ibn al-Walīd. The Tatars numbered six thousand, whereas the Muslims (12) were only one thousand four hundred; yet Allah defeated them (13)—exalted is He—and killed