The Nāṣirī Generations 287.2.8

287.2.8

This reality influenced and roused the mind of Mangu Khan to the reduction of the fortresses and territories of Mulhidistan, and the Kuhistan of Alamut. A mandate was accordingly issued so that the forces which were in the countries of I-ran and 'Ajam, from Khurasan and 'Irak, turned their faces to the territory of the Kuhistan and the tract of Alamut; and, during a period of ten years or more, they took the whole of the cities and fortresses, and put the whole of the Mulahidah to the sword, with the exception of the women and children, all the remainder being sent to hell ; and the potency of the verse — " Thus do we cause one oppressor to overcome another” — was made manifest.