ABSTRACT
Apart from some ruins, some frontier territorial changes, and the increasing substitution of Mongol authority for local autonomy, a stable regime seemed to have been re-established with some kind of continuity with the previous period. In 1279, the Egyptian army on its way to besiege Qal'at al-Rūm (Rumkale) on the Euphrates, obtained by threats freedom of passage through the kingdom of Cilicia from a Karamanid chief, which proves that the Turcomans were still there, that they maintained or renewed the links established in the time of Baybars, and so remained, as in the past, the unsubdued adversaries of the Seljukid-Mongol regime. Fakhr al-Dīn Qazwīnī was a good accountant and not lacking in generosity; but, hungry to acquire a fortune or under pressure from his clientele of Iranian newcomers. The immediate successor of Qazwīnī was one Shams al-Dīn Aḥmad Lākūshī under the general supervision of Samaghar, the former resident who had been dismissed by Abaqa at the Pervane's demand.
