Al-Isfahani

QADI 'IMAD AD-DIN AL-ISFAHANI (about 1196 A.D.)

The author is believed, on stylistic grounds, to be different from the famous contemporary Kātib (and not "qādī" of Saladin) 'Imād al-dīn al-Iṣfahānī, who wrote the "Kharida". Bustān al-jāmi (The garden of the Mosque, Chronicle co¬vering 1096-1196 A.D.) Ed.: C. Cahen, Bull.d'Et.Or. VII-VIII, 1937-1930. T.: Cahen A:0

Year 566 (= 1170 A.D.). The rout (kasrah) of the Blacks (sūdān) took place (in this year): many of them were slain, the remainder were driven out of Cairo. Al- Malik an-Nāṣir Salāḥaddīn wrote to the military governors to kill every Black (aswad) they found in all the district. They actually killed all those they came across. (Cahen, p. 133).