The Nāṣirī Generations 66.2

66.2

He installed his slaves in the government, and administration of every country. Arran, 'Irak, and Azarbaijan he conferred upon I-lduz-giz, who was his slave; and he was the father of the Ata-bak, Muhammad; and the Ata-bak, Uz-bak, and the Ata-bak, Aldituz, are both descendants of his. The territory of Fars was given to Sankur, who was the ancestor of the Ata-baks of Fars; and the Ata-bak, Zangi, the Ata-bak, Duklah, and the Ata-bak, Sa'd, and his sons, are all his [Sankur’s] descendants. The country of Khwarazm he conferred upon the son of Khwarazm Shah, who was one of his [the Sultan’s] servants, who was the father of I-yal-Arsalan, who was the father of Takish, Khwarazm Shah, father of Muhammad, Khwarazm Shah. The Sultan of Ghaznin, Mas’ud-i-Karim [the Beneficent], son of Sultan Razzi-ud-Din, Ibrahim, — May the light of the Almighty illumine their resting place! — took the sister of Sultan Sanjar to wife. During the reign of the last, through the death of Sultan Mas’ud-i-Karim, it is said that dissension arose between the Sultans of Ghaznin. Malik Arsalan, son of Sultan Mas’ud, ascended the throne at Ghaznin, and Bahram Shah, another son of Mas’ud, was with his father, in the district of Tigin-abad of Garmsir, at the time of his father’s decease; and, from that place, Bahram Shah proceeded to the presence of Sultan Sanjar [his maternal uncle], and for a considerable period continued in attendance at his Court.