581 AH.
Some report that he retained five thousand mamluks, together with horses and equipment beyond reckoning. After him, his maternal half-brother Qizil took the throne. Another view is that Pahlawan died at the outset of 582 AH.
In name he installed Tughril ibn Arslan—the last of the Seljuk kings—as sultan, while actual authority lay with Pahlawan. After Pahlawan’s death Tughril consolidated his power, and fighting erupted between him and Qizil ibn Ildukuz until Qizil was killed in Shaʿban 587 AH.
- al-Kamal al-Anbari, ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah
The imam, exemplar, and master grammarian, Kamal al-Din Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Anbari, long-time resident of Baghdad.
He studied jurisprudence at the Nizamiyya under Abū Mansur al-Razzaz and others, excelling in the Shafiʿi school. He read the works on juristic disagreement, conducted review sessions at the Nizamiyya, and preached. He then refined his literary training with Ibn al-Jawaliqi and Abū al-Saʿadat Ibn al-Shajari, produced commentaries on several poetic collections, and assumed a teaching chair,