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Qirwāsh* ibn Muqallid (1) ibn al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ al-ʿUqaylī
The emir, lord of Mosul, Abū al-Manīʿ Muʿtamad al-Dawlah, son of the former lord of Mosul, Husām al-Dawlah Abū Ḥassān al-ʿUqaylī.
He came to power after his father’s death in 391 AH. His reign lasted a long time and his dominion expanded; Mosul, Kūfa, al-Madāʾin, and the irrigated districts along the Euphrates were all under his control.
In some of his territories he ordered the Friday sermon to be delivered in the name of the Fatimid ruler al-Hākim. He later abandoned that and restored the Abbasid khutbah. Al-Hākim grew enraged, dispatched an army against him, and the troops came, looted his residence in Mosul, and seized two hundred thousand dinars. Qirwāsh sought assistance from Dubays al-Asadī and triumphed. (2)
He was cultured, a poet, open-handed, much praised—yet also a marauder and prodigal, retaining a measure of pre-Islamic bravado and Bedouin temperament.
It is said that he united two sisters in marriage. When people reproached him, he retorted, “Tell me, what part of the Sacred Law do we ever observe that you should mention this?”
On another occasion he said, “I carry on my conscience only the blood of five or six Arabs; as for the town-dwellers, Allah cares nothing for them.” (3)
A quarrel then broke out between him and his nephew Barakah; Barakah overpowered him and imprisoned him,