The Nāṣirī Generations 110.8

110.8

Salah-ud-Din demanded that they should give their allegiance to the Khalifahs of the house of ’Abbas as the successors of the Prophet and chief patriarchs. The people all agreed to pledge their fealty to the house of ’Abbas; and, at that time, the Lord of the Faithful, Al-Mustazi B’amr-Ullah, filled the office of Khalifah, and the Khutbah was pronounced in the name of the ’Abbasi family. A despatch announcing this triumph was forwarded to Baghdad, the capital of the Khalifahs, together with the standard of the Farangs, inverted, and the flags of the Karamitah heretics, to the presence of the Khalifah Al-Mustazi B’amr-Ullah. From the capital of Islam, Salah-ud-Din received the title of Malik-un-Nasir, and he became sovereign of Misr; and, at this time also, Sultan Nur-ud-Din died, Sultan Salah-ud-Din marched into Sham, and assumed the throne of sovereignty, as has been previously stated. He conferred the [government of the] territory of Misr upon one of his sons, Malik-ul-'Aziz, and another son, Malik-ul-Afzal, he nominated to be his heir; and upon his brother, Malik-ul-'Adil, he conferred the province of Diyar-i-Bakr.