He died burdened by debts amounting to two hundred thousand dinars. He had several illustrious siblings: the Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn; Sayf al-Dīn al-ʿĀdil; Shāhinshāh, father of Farrukhshāh, lord of Baalbek; the father of al-Malik Taqī al-Dīn ʿUmar, lord of Ḥamāh; Tāj al-Mulūk Būrī, who was killed at Aleppo; Sayf al-Islām Ṭuġtikin, who likewise ruled Yemen; Rabīʿah Khātūn; and Sitt al-Shām (1).
11 – The King of Mosul, Ghāzī ibn Mawdūd ibn Zankī the Turk
This is King Sayf al-Dīn Ghāzī, son of Qutb al-Dīn Mawdūd, lord of Mosul, grandson of the Atabeg Zankī, great-grandson of Qasīm al-Dawlah Āqsunqur the Turk of Mosul. He succeeded his father while still under the nominal authority of his uncle King Nūr al-Dīn, and his reign was lengthy. When Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn assumed the sultanate and besieged Aleppo, Ghāzī dispatched his army, together with his brother Masʿūd, to aid their cousin. They confronted Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn at Qurun Ḥamāh, where Masʿūd was routed. Ghāzī then advanced in person to avenge the defeat. Battle was joined on Tall al-Sulṭān near Aleppo; the left wing of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn’s army collapsed, but the sultan charged in person and broke the troops of Mosul. May Allah disfigure fighting for the sake of sovereignty—how miserable it is.
Ghāzī—may Allah have mercy on him—died of tuberculosis in Ṣafar 576 AH.