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 108 RAZIYA, THE MOHAMMEDAN EMPEESS OF INDIA same year, Sultan Raziya appointed the writer of these lines to the Nasiriya college and to the office of Judge of Gwalior. In 637 A. H. (1239 A.D.), Malik Izz-ad-din Kabir Khan, governor of Lahore, broke out in revolt. The Sultan led her army from Delhi in that direction and pursued him. After a time he made peace and did homage. The province of Multan, which had been held by Malik Karakash, was given to Malik Izz-ad-din Kabir Khan. On Thursday, the nineteenth of Ramazan, 637 A. H. (April, 1240 A. D.), the Sultan Raziya returned to the capital. Malik Altuniya, who was governor of Tabar- hindh, revolted, and some of the high officials on the frontier supported him. On Wednesday, the ninth of the same month and year, she marched with a numer- ous army toward Tabarhindh to put down these rebels. When she arrived there, she was attacked by the Turks, who put the Abyssinian Amir Jamal-ad-din Yakut to death. They then seized the Sultan Raziya and sent her a prisoner to the fort of Tabarhindh. When Sultan Raziya was taken to Tabarhindh as a captive, Malik Altuniya espoused her cause and led her army toward Delhi to regain possession of the kingdom, whereupon Malik Izz-ad-din Mohammad Salari and Malik Karakash left the capital and went to join them. Meanwhile, Mu'izz-ad-din had ascended the throne, Ikhtiyar-ad-din Itigin, the lord chamberlain, had been slain, and Badr-ad-din Sankar Rumi had been ap- pointed his successor. In the month of Rabi'-al-awwal, 638 A. H. (Sept., 1240 A. D.), the Sultan marched from