In the same year:
The heir-apparent’s name was struck on the gold dinars; the new coinage was called the Amiri, and dealings in any other currency were prohibited.

In the same year:
A letter from the lord of Mecca reached Sultan Alp Arslan while he was in Khurasan, informing him that the Friday sermon in Mecca was now pronounced for al-Qāʾim bi-Amr Allah and for the Sultan, and that the sermon in favor of the Egyptians had been discontinued. Alp Arslan thereupon sent him thirty thousand dinars, splendid robes of honor, and fixed for him an annual allowance of ten thousand dinars.

In this year:
ʿAmīd al-Dawlah ibn Jahīr married the daughter of Niẓām al-Mulk in Rayy, after which he returned to Baghdad; and Abū ʼl-Ghanāʾim al-ʿAlawī led the people in the pilgrimage.

Among the notable figures who died this year were:

al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Bārī (1), Abū ʼl-Jawāʾiz al-Wāsiṭī. He spent many years in Baghdad and was a refined, witty poet. Born in 352 AH, he died this year at the age of one hundred and ten. Of his choice verse is the following:

Alas for me when she declares,
“You have betrayed the pledge you owed to me!”
By Him who made me
A gift devoted to her and none but her,
She never crosses my mind
Without clothing me in longing for her.

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Sahl (2), better known as Ibn Bishrān, the grammarian of Wāsiṭ. Born in 380 AH, he was a master of literature, to whom students of language traveled from every land. He composed fine poetry, among which is:

O builder of palaces, slow down (3);
Desist, for the youth’s true palace is death.
Never have the dwellers of any palace gathered
But that their palace (4) ended in dispersal.
Life is nothing but a shifting shade,
Moving on with no abiding stay.