The Nāṣirī Generations 45.11

45.11

but, in some works, an expedition against Nandanah, in 404 H., is mentioned. In 407 H., Mahmud’s son-in-law, Abu-l-’Abbas-i-Mamun, Farighuni, ruler of Jurjaniah of Khwarazm, was murdered by some of his troops. Mahmud went in person into Khwarazm, defeated the insurgents, and put Nial-Tigin [called Alb-Tigin by Baihaki], the ringleader, and the murderers, to the sword, reduced that territory under his sway, and Altun-Tash, the great chamberlain, was entrusted with its government. I-lak Khan had died in Mawar-un-Nahr, in 403 H.; and in 408 H. Mahmud sought from her uncle, Tughan Khan, who had succeeded him, the hand of I-lak’s daughter in marriage for his son Mas’ud, whom he nominated as his heir and successor. Tughan Khan himself died in the same year, and was succeeded by his brother, Bughra Tigin, entitled Arsalan Khan. On that lady’s arrival shortly after at Balkh, the capital was illuminated; and soon after Mahmud made over the government of Khurasan to Mas’ud, with Hirat as the seat of government, having previously assembled the whole of his Ulus, or tribe, together, to take oath of fealty to his son. [According to Baihaki, however, this lady had been betrothed to Muhammad, Mas’ud’s brother, but the former, having been immured in a fortress by the latter, when he ascended the throne, Muhammad could not marry her, and Mas’ud did, with the consent of her brother; but this was several years subsequent to the events above-mentioned.]