al-Qarnayn ibn Ḥamdān, grandson of the lord of Mosul, Nāṣir al-Dawla al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamdān, of the Banū Taghlib.
Among his poetry:
“I feel a pang of envy—not at what is written on the lines of the page—
whenever I behold the embrace(1) of the lām and the alif;
Nor do I think their long-drawn union endures
save for the depth of passion(2) the two have known.”
He had journeyed to Egypt and was made governor of Alexandria during the reign of al-Ẓāhir, son of al-Ḥākim; afterwards he returned to Damascus.
He died in 428 AH.
81 – Al-Idrīsī al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammūd ibn Maymūn* (duplicate 81)
The son of Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Idrīs ibn Idrīs ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan—an ʿAlawī, Ḥasanī, Idrīsī.
He took charge of Cordoba in 408 AH after the murder of his brother ʿAlī ibn Ḥammūd.
A quiet, even-tempered man under whom the populace felt secure, he nonetheless showed a slight inclination toward Shiʿism. In 412 AH his nephew Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī rebelled. Al-Qāsim fled to Seville, then gathered forces and advanced on Cordoba, whereupon Yaḥyā in turn fled. A few months later al-Qāsim’s position crumbled: the Berbers abandoned him in 414 AH, each faction seized a city, and turmoil and upheavals followed. Al-Qāsim then made for Sharish (Jerez), and Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī set out in pursuit