In this same year the Hajj caravans from Iraq and Khurasan were unable to set out (because the road was unsafe and Fakhr al-Mulk was away repairing the provinces).

In this year as well the Umayyad monarchy was restored in al-Andalus. Sulayman ibn Ḥakam ibn Sulayman ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Nāṣir, an Umayyad, assumed the throne with the honorific al-Mustaʿīn bi-Allah, and the people of Córdoba pledged their allegiance to him ⦗1⦘.

Also this year: Bahāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Naṣr Fīrūz ibn ʿAḍud al-Dawlah ibn Būyah the Daylamite—ruler of Baghdad and other territories—died, and authority passed to his son, Sulṭān al-Dawlah Abū Shujāʿ ⦗2⦘.

In the same year the supreme king of the Turks, Ilik Khān, died ⦗3⦘, after which command over them passed to his brother Ṭughān Khān.

That year likewise witnessed the death of Shams al-Maʿālī Qābūs ibn Wushmkīr ⦗4⦘: he was shut up in a cold room during winter with no clothing until he perished. Rule then devolved to his son Manūchihr, who was given the title Falak al-Maʿālī and had the khuṭbah pronounced in the name of Maḥmūd ibn Subuktikīn. Shams al-Maʿālī Qābūs had been a learned, accomplished man—scholar, littérateur, and poet.

Among his verses are these:
“Say to the one who mocks us for fortune’s turns:
Did Fate ever oppose anyone but men of worth?
Do you not see corpses floating upon the sea,
While pearls lie settled in its deepest bed?
So if calamity’s hand has fastened onto us
And the sequence of its blows has caused us harm,
In the sky there are stars beyond all counting,
Yet only the sun and the moon are eclipsed.”

And among his finest, most exquisite lines:
“The fleeting thoughts of you entice my love;
Within my heart they move with practiced grace.
No limb of mine is free of passionate longing—
As though my very limbs were fashioned of hearts.”

Among the other notable figures who died this year was Aḥmad ⦗5⦘ ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Battī ⦗6⦘. He had served as scribe to the caliph al-Qādir during the latter’s stay in al-Baṭīḥah, and afterward wrote for him in the dīwān.