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etaken by the Caucasians, but Jalal al-Din continued
devastating one or another section of Armenia until
1230 when he was decisively beaten near £rz.injan by a
united force composed of troops of Malik-Ashraf of Hat',
the Sal Jug, sultan of Rum, Kai-Qubad, Cilioian and
Crusader detachments . Jalal was murdered the nest
2
year by a Kurdish peasant . His raids and devastations
2S PP. 129-30? HAP III p. 605? Abu'1-Fida (Halb. pp.
233-24); Ibn Bibi pp. 154-74; Yov.YiS., appendix, #11
pp. 1031-32; U. p. 75. KG'a information is found in
chp. 19 of his History. "Concerning the Destruction of
Sultan Jalal al-Din and His Death". According to this
source, after Jalal had defeated the ruler of Zlat',
Malik-Ashraf, he married.the latter.'s wife T'amt'a, who
was the aaughter of Iwane. As Jalal went on to ruin.other
districts under the sway of 'Ala al-Din, sultan of Rum,
the latter mustered a mixed army including Egyptins,
Cilician Armenians and Franks. Supposedly, although there
were less than a thousand Cilician Armenians and Franks,
it was due to their valour that Jalal al-Din's army was
routed, KG pp. 22g-29.
"Now sultan Jalal al-Din returned to the land of Albania
to the fruitful and fertile Mughan plain, in great shame.
He encamped there and wanted to assemble an army. However,
the I'at ars who had expelled him from his own country as
a fugitive pursued him and chased him as far as Amit'
(Amida), where they ferociously struck his forces. The
impious prince died in that very battle. But some say
he went on foot thence as a fugitive, and that a man
chanced upon him and recognized him as the one who had
earlier slain one of his relations, and so killed him to
avenge his relative's blond. Thus did the evil one die,
wickedly " KG p. 230.
2 2E£ P. 335; KG pp. 229-30 (see note 1 above); VA: "After
committing many crimes, he turned.upon Zlat , took it,
and gnriched with booty went to Rum against sultan Ala
al-Din and Malik-Ashraf. However he suffered a great. _
defeat in battle an? fled with a few [followers] to Mughan.
that plain so suited for all human and animal needs. Then
the T at'are—who had thrown him out of his country earlier
—fell upon him suddenly and thence put him to flight to
Amids. Either he died inadvertently while fleeing, or he
fell to the T'at'ar sword, or else, as is said, one of
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