so why do I behold the Grey City—her dawn eclipsed—covered over with a night whose deepest shadows hold no light?
Has the sanctuary of the warrior, al-Ghiyath ibn Yusuf, really been breached, his processions now returning empty-handed?
And who (1) will tell me of that towering mountain—have its foundations collapsed, or has its flank yielded to the blow?

155 – Ibn Yunus, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Yunus ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi *
The great minister, Jalal al-Din, Abu al-Muẓaffar ʿUbayd Allah ibn Yunus ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi, al-Azaji, the jurist.

He studied jurisprudence under Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani; pursued legal theory and theology with Sadaqa ibn al-Husayn; and learned the Qur’an in its variant readings at Hamadhan from Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-ʿAttar.

He transmitted hadith from Nasr ibn Nasr al-ʿUkbari and a number of others.

Thereafter he moved among the grandees until he was appointed agent for the mother of al-Nasir. His position advanced (2) until he attained the vizierate in 583 AH.

He then marched with the armies against Tughril, the last Seljuq; they engaged in pitched battle, the vizier was routed, his troops scattered, and he was captured and taken to Tabriz (3). He escaped to Mosul, slipped into Baghdad in disguise, kept to his house for a time, then emerged, was put in charge of the treasury and subsequently of the ustadh-dariyya in 587 AH. When he again assumed the vizierate