He died leaving only a single son, who himself passed away as a young man and left no progeny.
He died in Jumada al-Akhira of the year 544 AH.
After him, Mosul came under the rule of his brother, King Qutb al-Din Mawdud (1), forefather of the later kings of Mosul. Ghazi was buried in the madrasa he had founded, and his Eid banquet comprised one thousand sheep apart from the horses and cattle. When the Franks besieged Damascus, Ghazi hastened to the city and drove them off. He left behind a young son, but the boy died soon afterward and his line became extinct.
125 – Abu Bakr Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Baqawi al-Qurtubi, an outstanding poet descended from the hadith scholar Baki ibn Makhlad.
He composed exquisite muwashshahat (2).
He raised aloft the banner of classical verse and was a master of both forthright declaration and subtle allusion within it (3).
… ‘How long will glory behold you clad in a poet’s garb, while yearning has made the pulpit-branches grow lean?’
This line appears in his Diwan, vol. 2, p. 316, edited by Maki al-Sayyid Jasim and Shakir Hadi Shukr.
(1) His biography will be given under no. 335.
(*) For further sources see: Qalaid al-Iqyan, p. 279; al-Dhakhira, second part, vol. 2, pp. 615-636; al-Kharida, vol. 2, p. 308; Mu jam al-Udaba, vol. 20, p. 21; al-Mutrib, p. 198; Takmilat al-Sila, p. 2042; al-Maghrib fi Huli al-Maghrib, vol. 2, p. 19; Wafayat al-A yan, vol. 6, pp. 202-205; Masalik al-Absar, vol. 11, fol. 280; Nafh al-Tib, vol. 4, pp. 236-240; and other works (see the index), as well as Azhar al-Riyad, vol. 2, p. 208.
(2) Some of his verses are quoted in Mu jam al-Udaba, vol. 20, pp. 24-25, and in Nafh al-Tib, vol. 4, pp. 237-240; a larger selection on various themes appears in al-Dhakhira, part 2, vol. 2, pp. 616 – 636.
(3) This judgement is by Ibn Khakan in Qalaid al-Iqyan and is reproduced by Ibn Khallikan in Wafayat, vol. 6, p. 203.