The Nāṣirī Generations 276.1

276.1

When Uktae despatched an army towards Khurasan and ’Irak, he made the Nu-in Jurmaghun the commander of it; and on that army marching towards that territory it consisted of about 50,000 Mughals, and other races of Turkistan, and captives of Khurasan; and the number, which turned their faces towards 'Irak, amounted, in all, to about 100,000 horse. On reaching that country in the year 628 H., they massacred so many of the people of that territory and parts adjacent that the pen hath not the power of recording them; and all the cities of 'Irak, and the Jibal [of 'Irak-i-'Ajam], of Aran, of Azarbaijan, Gilan, the territory of Rustam-dar, which is on the shores of the Bahr-i-Khurz [the Caspian sea], as far as the Dar-band-i-Rum [the Caspian Gates], and Tabaristan, the whole were ravaged, pillaged, and laid waste, with the single exception of the city of Safahan [Isfahan], which was not taken for a period of fifteen years after the first irruption of the Chingiz Khan, the Mughal, and the entry of his forces into the country of 'Irak, as will be subsequently recorded in its proper place.