قصد خوارزمشاه بغداد ورده الثلج

قصد خوارزمشاه بغداد ورده الثلج

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Khwarazmshah, grown mighty over Khurasan and Transoxiana, cut the Abbasid khutba from his lands and marched on Baghdad; at Hamadan twenty days of out-of-season snow buried his host — 'God's wrath that you aim at the house of prophecy', a courtier said — and news that the Turkic peoples had rallied behind him turned him back; the Nasir was spared without battle. In 592 he crossed the Jayhun with fifty thousand demanding the sultanate and the caliph's tutelage as in Seljuk days; the caliph razed the dar al-saltana and returned his envoy unanswered ¹.