Ibn Naẓīf's World-History by David Cook

Author:David Cook [Cook, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education, Teaching Methods & Materials, Arts & Humanities, History, General, Social Science, Ethnic Studies
ISBN: 9781000286144
Google: CJMFEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-29T16:02:04+00:00

But they refused anything other than looting, so he increased the offer by 50,000 dinars, and swore them by the [triple] divorce that if he heard that they had turned aside to loot or caused any other harm to the town.

Then he entered the city of Zabīd, and stayed in it, but the Kurds departed from a gate and eluded him (?). Then they went to a property called al-Ḥaṣbay, stayed there with a man called `Alī al-Kinānī, who was among the sea-watch (ghufarā’ al-baḥr). He hosted them, and treated them well as guests. But they demanded wine (nabīdh) for them to drink, so he brought them palm wine, which was called al-faḍḥ,441 so they drank from it, became drunk, and slept. [119a]

441Yellowish wine.

Their host `Alī al-Kinānī rose, took their horses, tied up their young men, took the wealth that they had, and handcuffed the Kurds until it was morning, and his people, the Banū Kināna gathered. They took them upon camels in litters (maḥā’ir) until they arrived with them to Zabīd.

Sunqur had `Alī al-Kinānī and his brother Muḥammad both strangled, and said to them “May God make you ugly! You betrayed your guests.” Then he took a number of the Kurds, and threw them into prison, summoning them on the third day to the palace. Sayf al-Dīn Sunqur had positioned a shabrama,442 which is a pedestal of bamboo like a throne-pedestal.

442Appears to be a local word, unattested in the dictionaries. Ibn Naẓīf’s definition indicates that he did not know what it was either.

He brought forward a son of Sayf al-Islām called al-Malik al-Nāṣir, who was very young. He summoned al-Duqqayq, then cut his throat, then after him `Alam al-Dīn, his nephew, then after him Hindū, then after him Rūbak, then after him `Īsā b. Ajwal al-Zarzārī, and seven of his brothers, then after him al-Niẓām b. `Īsā [119b] al-Jazarī and a number. The slain that day were 700 {souls} all told. He had clemency upon al-Qarābulī, and his sons, upon Bākhil, and upon Ibn Barakāt.

Then he sat in his realm, and did justice, acting well as long as the inhabitants of the Yemen and subjects did not see him, as he placed al-Malik al-Nāṣir as sultan, and became his atābak. The name of al-Malik al-Nāṣir was mentioned in the sermons in the land of Yemen, and he remained in the sultanate, and as atābak for four years until he expired suddenly in Ta`izz.

This was because on the night of his death he had eaten horse’s meat and beef, and a cooked drink443 was served to him. He was washed, and buried in the Congregational Mosque in Ta`izz. He left a son incapable of speech, and another son from the mother of al-Malik al-Nāṣir, as she became his wife.

443Variants add “cooked with honey”.

Then Ibrāhīm Ghāzī b. Jibrā’īl married the mother of al-Malik al-Nāṣir after the passing of Sayf al-Dīn Sunqur, and he also became an atābak to al-Malik al-Nāṣir. al-Malik al-Nāṣīr stayed for a time, then expired in al-Janad, was borne to al-Ta`izz, then buried [120a] in it.

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