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Ta'iya, who had not been able to escape from the victorious Marzuq, had the palace doors shut against her. She improved her situation and fought them, besieging her for three days. She died of grief and blood loss in the new mosque. The hidden hatred was removed, and she allied herself with the king. She began to correspond with the Turks with great regret and plotted against him herself. She prepared for them, telling them that they had imposed a treaty on her. They came with a large army and poisoned him. When she saw them, she fled. She traded horses near the palace. The gates of the palace were opened to the men and those between them, so they thought they were men. The messengers' land was cut off. She kept what she had promised after the palace was secured and its doors were locked. She did what she did in it. When they realized this, they attacked the palace, conquered it, took her, and tortured her with severe torture. Then they changed her and headed to Marzuq after conquering Sabta. In Marzuq was Al-Nasir bin Al-Mustansir bin Muhammad Al-'Abis, who was the eldest of Al-Muntazir's sons. When the news reached them and they were certain they had no strength to fight them, they prepared for them from their treasury and their followers and brothers. The land was conquered, and the Turks took control of the country and appointed a man named Mami Mun'im as governor. They brought with him a contingent of soldiers and returned. When they did this in the land of Fezzan and reached Al-Balha, and the year 1299 AH began, the people of the country rose up against Mami and his soldiers and killed them. They were avenged, and no one knew of them except Ta'iya and the sons of 'Alwan, who were allies of the soldiers. They sent Al-Nasir to the land of Sudan as their leader, and they pledged allegiance to him, and he settled there until the year 1008 AH. He died there of illness. The soldiers of the country took possession of his property and oppressed the subjects greatly. A man from the land of the Maghreb arrived with camels, Yahya bin Yahya Al-Suwaidi, and he showed knowledge and piety and the beginnings of justice. The soldiers were in a state of affairs that only God knows. It is said that a soldier whose name was [name missing] went to the land of Algeria. If the soldiers of Tripoli had conquered it, they would have taken it. He was appointed with a man who conquered the province and managed it with God's help. They spread among them, on the condition that he stay in the country and be loved by the people. They knew him and ordered him to [action missing]. When the travelers arrived, they treated them unjustly, and they killed him. The news of this reached him, along with complaints from the subjects about their injustice and oppression. He invoked God against them, and Yahya bin Yahya Al-Suwaidi invoked God against them, and God granted them victory at the hands of the Arabs. He rose up against them in the year 1298 AH, and the people of the region pledged allegiance to him secretly. He went out and settled in his [location missing], and he was eloquent, generous, and brave. The people of the region and the Bedouins pledged allegiance to him. People heard about him from afar and near. The soldiers went out to him while he was there, and they benefited from his [action missing]. He defeated the soldiers and killed about half of them or more. The people of [place missing] and their [people missing] were killed, and the lives of the people were saved. They heard him, and the soldiers and [people missing].

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