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

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF QUBILAI QA AN
That son too died shortly afterward270 and his mother became ruler.
Muhammad Shah, the nephew of the atabeg Abu Bakr, who had
married [Terken Khatun's] daughter, Salghum, picked a quarrel with
his mother-in-law, and, in the end, he was put to death.271 Terken
Khatun had betrothed her youngest daughter, Abish Khatun, to
Prince Mongke-Temur.
Terken Khatun now became the wife of Saljuq-Shah, who after a
time put her to death and imprisoned her two daughters in the
Qal'a-yi Sapid. This was reported to Court, and the Emir Altachu
was sent at the head of an army to proceed [to Pars] and seize Saljuq-
Shah, with the assistance of Rukn al-Din 'Ala al-Daula of Yezd, who
was the brother of Terken Khatun, the maliks of Shaba.nka.ra,272
and the Tazik cherig of that country. When the army reached Abarquh,
they were met by six thousand Shirazi horsemen. 'Ala al-Daula attacked
them with five hundred horsemen and drove them back to the gates of
Shiraz. Saljuq-Shah took refuge in Kazarun. The army proceeded
thither and fought a battle. They captured the town, looting and
massacring; and Saljuq-Shah was dragged out and killed, and his
head was sent to Shiraz. The atabeg 'Ala al-Daula received a wound
there and died several days later. The daughters were taken out of the
castle and brought to Court by their grandmother, Yaqut Terken,
who was the daughter of Qutlugh-Sultan Baraq Hajib, the ruler of
Kirman. Abish Khatun was given in marriage to Prince Mongke-
Temur, and she was in effect the atabeg of Shiraz. The other sister,
Bibi Salghum, was given in marriage to the atabeg Yusuf-Shah of
Yezd, who was her cousin. Abish Khatun died273 during the reign of
Arghun Khan. Her body was taken to Shiraz and buried in the Madrasa-yi
'Adudlya, which her mother had built in honor of the aforementioned
'Adud al-Din Muhammad. Princess Kurdiinjin became her
heir, and although the office of malik of Shiraz is now performed by
ortaqs and merchants, the drums are still beaten at the gates of the
atabegs' palace and the Great Divan is still held there.
270 In October or November, 1262. SeeSpuler 1939, p. 143.
271 As a reprisal for Saljuq-Shah's revolt. See Spuler 1939, p. 144.
272 The easternmost part of Fars, which under the Mongols was treated as a separate
province: it is Polo's Soncara, the seventh of the " eight kingdoms " of Persia.
273 In 1286or 1287. SeeSpuler 1939,p. 145.
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