The Nāṣirī Generations 256.7.1

256.7.1

On the death of I-yal-Arsalan, there were two claimants to the throne—his two sons, Jalal-ud-Din, Sultan Shah, and ’Imad-ud-Din, Takish Khan, who was the eldest son; but he, not being sufficiently powerful to oust the former, who, with his mother — a strong-minded woman — was in possession of the capital, and being at that time absent in charge of the territory of Jand, which his father had taken from Kamal-ud-Din, Arsalan Khan, son of Mahmud, and annexed, entered the territory of the third Gur Khan, and sought her help to recover his patrimony. She agreed to aid him, on the stipulation that, on his being put in possession of Khwarazm, he should pay over a certain amount of treasure, and a yearly tribute afterwards. A large army was accordingly despatched to support Sultan Takish, and put him in possession, under the command of her husband, Raima or Farmae, — had caused the overthrow of the forces of Khita. and, in by name, who conducted the affairs of her empire. In the Jami’-ut-Tawarikh he is styled Farmae Aka. Sultan Shah and his mother fled, and Takish was put in possession of the capital, in Rabi’-ul-Akhir, 568 H. [the end of December A.D. 1172].