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Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan

إرسال الأمير أبي الهيجاء إلى همذان

c. 1196 CE · 593 AH

Hamadan

Al-Nasir sent the amir Abu al-Hayja to Hamadan and took it with its Jibal; when Khwarazmshah Tekish overran the country the vizier received him with honor and turned him back 1.

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1180119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Hamadan

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Summary

Al-Nasir sent the prince Abu al-Hayja to Hamadan, and he took it and the surrounding mountain country. Then Khwarazm-Shah Takash overpowered it, and the caliph's vizier honoured him and sent him back. 1.

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Hamadan
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al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'· علاء الدين تكش خوارزم شاه

People and things also explored

Killing of Sultan Tughril III, last Seljuk sultan in Iraq· the caliph army routed by Sultan Tughril· Conquest of Hamadan and Waj Rudh (22 AH)· Death of caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah· Death of caliph al-Nasir's son· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins· death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Ibn Sina becomes vizier to Shams al-Dawla at Hamadan

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 236
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Killing of Sultan Tughril III, last Seljuk sultan in Iraq

In the year 590 Sultan Tughril ibn Arslan ibn Tughril al-Saljuqi marched on the city of Rayy and raided those there who belonged to Khwarazm-Shah Ala al-Din Tekish. Khwarazm-Shah set out from Nishapur for Rayy, and Qutlugh Inanj ibn al-Bahlawan met him in submission. When Tughril heard of his approach, with his troops scattered, he did not wait to gather them. He was told that what he was doing was not sound judgement and that the right course was to assemble the armies, but he would not accept this, for he had courage. The two armies met near Rayy, and Tughril charged in person into the middle of Khwarazm-Shah's army; they surrounded him, threw him from his horse, and killed him on the 24th of Rabi' I. His head was sent to Khwarazm-Shah, who had it forwarded to Baghdad, where it was displayed for several days at Bab al-Nawbi. Khwarazm-Shah marched on Hamadhan and took all those lands. The caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah had sent an army to his aid, with the sultanic robes, under his vizier Muayyad al-Din ibn al-Qassab. The vizier sent a messenger to summon Khwarazm-Shah to his tent in order to seize him, but Khwarazm-Shah was wary and went to him intending to seize him instead, and the vizier fled into the mountain fastnesses.