Ibn ʿAsākir relates that, after besieging Damascus several times, Atsiz assumed its rule, restored the Abbasid khuṭbah, gained mastery over most of Syria, and then marched toward Egypt to conquer it, but his plan failed. In the year seventy-one, 471 AH, the Egyptians sent a large army against Syria; Atsiz could not withstand them and appealed to Tāj al-Dawlah Tutush (1). Tutush came to Damascus, seized control of it, and Atsiz was killed in the month of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. Authority thereafter passed to Tutush.
Atsiz had billeted his troops in the people’s homes, imprisoned a number of leading figures, and paraded them bare-headed under the blazing sun (2) on the plain of Marj Rāhiṭ (3) until they ransomed themselves with a great deal of money; many of them then departed for Tripoli (4).
In Jerusalem he had killed large numbers of them, including its qāḍī, and perpetrated other enormities until Allah—exalted is He—uprooted him.
The common folk call him “Aqsīs” (5).

219 – Al-Jurjānī, Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān*
The master of Arabic: Abū Bakr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī.
He learned grammar in Jurjān from Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan, the nephew of the eminent scholar Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī.