Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (18/321)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

in al-Andalus, and the Muslims prevailed. Yet the Commander of the Muslims, Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn, treated Ibn ʿAbbād harshly, seized his lands, and imprisoned him (1).

The Commander of the Armies then advanced, encamped before Damascus, tightened the noose around Tutush, and afterwards withdrew (2).

In 479 AH Tutush confronted Sulaymān, the ruler of Konya; Sulaymān was killed, and Tutush took control of Aleppo. His brother the Sultan marched from Isfahan to Aleppo, captured it, and Tutush fled before him. Over Aleppo he appointed Qasīm al-Dawlah—the grandfather of Nūr al-Dīn—and the city flourished under his administration (3).

The Sultan next subdued the Jazīrah, proceeded to Baghdad, and Niẓām al-Mulk arrived soon after. The Sultan went hunting, built the Qurun Minaret, and the caliph al-Muqtadī received him, conferring robes of sovereignty upon him and upon his emirs, while Niẓām al-Mulk presented them and interpreted on their behalf (4).

Later al-Muqtadī married the Sultan’s daughter. No one had ever heard of a wedding or trousseau to match hers: forty thousand mann of sugar were distributed at the feast (5).

The ruler of Ghazna and India, al-Muʾayyad Ibrāhīm (6) ibn Masʿūd—son of Sultan Maḥmūd—died; his son Jalāl al-Dīn, husband of Malikshāh’s daughter (for whose wedding Niẓām al-Mulk had spent two million dirhams), succeeded him.

(7) Malikshāh set out to gain Samarqand, conquered the lands beyond the Oxus, and when his daughter felt slighted by the caliph’s dismissal of her, he granted her permission to

(1) See Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, pp. 142, 151, 187; and al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 198. (2) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, p. 145; al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 196. (3) See Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, p. 147 ff.; al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 197. (4) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, p. 155 ff. (5) Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, p. 161. (6) His biography will appear under no. 301 below. (7) See Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 10, pp. 167-168; al-Mukhtasar, vol. 2, p. 199.

بِالأَنْدَلُسِ، وَانتصر المُسْلِمُوْنَ، وَأَسَاء أَمِيْر المُسْلِمِيْنَ يُوْسُفُ بنُ تَاشفِيْن إِلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاد، وَأَخَذَ بلاَده، وَسَجَنَهُ (١) . وَأَقْبَلَ أَمِيْرُ الجُيُوْش، فَنَازل دِمَشْقَ، وَضيَّق عَلَى تُتْش، ثُمَّ ترحَّل (٢) . وَفِي سَنَةِ (٧٩) التُّقَى تُتْش وَصَاحِبُ قُونِيَة سُلَيْمَانُ، فَقُتل سُلَيْمَانُ، وَاسْتَوْلَى تُتش عَلَى حلب. وَأَقْبَلَ أَخُوْهُ السُّلْطَانُ مِنْ أَصْبَهَان إِلَى حلب، فَأَخَذَهَا، وَهَرَبَ مِنْهُ أَخُوْهُ، وَنَاب بِحَلَب قَسيمُ الدَّوْلَة؛ جَدُّ نُور الدِّين، فَعمرت بِهِ (٣) ، وَافتَتَح السُّلْطَانُ الجَزِيْرَةَ، وَقَدِمَ بَغْدَاد، وَقَدِمَ بَعْدَهُ النّظامُ، ثُمَّ تَصيَّد، وَعَمِلَ منَارَةَ القُرُوْنَ، وَجَلَسَ لَهُ المُقتدي، وَخلعَ عَلَيْهِ خِلَعَ السَّلطنَة، وَعَلَى أَمرَائِهِ، وَنظَامُ الْملك يُقَدِّمُهم وَيُتَرْجِمُ عَنْهُم (٤) ، ثُمَّ كَانَ عُرس المُقتدي عَلَى بِنْتِ السُّلْطَانِ، وَلَمْ يُسْمَعْ بِمِثْلِ جَهَازِهَا وَعُرسهَا؛ دَخَلَ فِي الدعوَة أَرْبَعُوْنَ أَلف مَناً مِنَ السكر (٥) . وَمَاتَ صَاحِبُ غَزنَة وَالهِنْد المُؤَيَّدُ إِبْرَاهِيْم (٦) بنُ مَسْعُوْدِ ابْن السُّلْطَانِ مَحْمُوْد، وَتَملَّك بَعْدَهُ ابْنُهُ جَلاَلُ الدِّين، زَوجُ بِنْت مَلِكْشَاه الَّتِي غَرِمَ نَظَامُ الْملك عَلَى عُرسهَا أَلفِي أَلفِ دِرْهَم. (٧) وَسَارَ مَلِكْشَاه لِيملك سَمَرْقَنْد، وَافتَتَح مَا وَرَاء النَّهْر، وَتَضوَّرت بِنْتُ مَلِكْشَاه مِنِ اطِّرَاح الخَلِيْفَة لَهَا، فَأَذن لَهَا فِي

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