The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF MONGKE QA.'AN
at the head of a great army of slaves and Arabs and set up mangonels
on the walls of Baghdad. News now came that the Mongols had reached
the castle of .ISO Sulaiman-Shah and this band of makers prepared
for battle, and the Mongols came up to Ja'farrya,151 lit fires
in the night, and then turned back. Suddenly there came news that the
Mongols had plundered Dujail. Sharabi'52 set out at the head of an
army to drive them off, and the Mongols withdrew.
History of the sultans
In Rum, Tzz al-Din Kai-Ka'us was sultan. His brother 'Ala al-Din
rose in rebellion and went to Ankuriya.153 He brought him from thence
and imprisoned him for 7 years in the castle of Hushyar.154
In Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu' was sultan. During these years he
equipped an army and sought the help of Taj al-Din Muhammad ibn
Sallaba, the ruler155 of Irbll, who sent a thousand men. The Sultan
of Mardln155 also mustered an army and sought help from Aleppo.
When the two sides met, the right wing of the Mardinis was defeated
and the army of Mosul went in pursuit of them and obtained a quantity
of booty. Meanwhile, the son of Qaimari,157 the leader of the army
of Aleppo, attacked and defeated the center of the army of Mosul.
Sultan Badr al-Din fled and reached Mosul with only ten men. His
treasury was plundered, and his soldiers fled and followed them
back.
In Egypt, Malik Salih Najm al-Din Aiyub ibn al-Kamil was sultan.
He died, and the emirs and people of Egypt sent for his son Malik
Mu'azzam Turan-Shah, who was governor of Hisn Kaifa..158 When
he came to the town of Damascus he seized it and proceeded from
»° Blank in all the MSS.
151 A western suburb of Baghdad.
»2 See above, p. 190 and note 38. The Mongol attack here described took place in
fact much earlier, in 1238, See Barhebraeus, p. 404.
'53 Angora, the modern Ankara.
154 Spelt Minshar in IbnBIbi (Duda, p. 61): it was somewhere in Malatya.
155 Za'im: actually the representative of the Caliph, to whom Muzaffar al-Din
K6k-B6ri, the last (d. 1232) of the Begtiginids, had bequeathed his principality.
156 Najm al-Din Ghazi I (1239—1260).
157 On Husam al-Din al-Qaimari, the son-in-law of Malik al-Ashraf, see above, p.
46 and note 163.
158 In Jazira or Upper Mesopotamia, now Hasankeyf in southern Turkey.
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