and carried off whole communities of women and children, whereupon the kings of that region (1)—Ildegiz, lord of Azerbaijan; Ibn Masqman, ruler of Khilāṭ; and Ibn Qarasunqur (2), lord of Marāgha—assembled to wage war against them. The following year they advanced into Georgian territory, plundered it, seized their dependants, and met them in battle, dealing them a crushing, dreadful, and notorious defeat; for three consecutive days they went on killing and taking prisoners.

In Rajab, Yūsuf of Damascus was reinstated as lecturer at the Niẓāmiyya after Ibn Niẓām al-Mulk had been dismissed, a woman having claimed that he had married her; he denied the charge at first, then admitted it, and was accordingly removed from the chair.

Within the same year the school built by the vizier Ibn Hubayra at Bāb al-Baṣra was completed, and he installed therein (3) a lecturer and a jurist.

The ḥajj that year was led by the amir of Kūfa, Buzghash.

Among the notable figures who died this year were:

Shujāʿ (4), the shaykh (5) of the Ḥanafīs at the shrine of Abū Ḥanīfa (6). He was eloquent in dialectical debate; the Ḥanafīs studied under him, and he was buried beside the shrine.

Ṣadaqa ibn Wazīr al-Wāsiṭī (7): he came to Baghdad and preached there, displaying exceptional asceticism. He inclined toward Shiʿism and speculative theology, yet despite all this he was popular with the common people and with some amirs, amassing plentiful gifts. With part of these he built a ribāṭ and was buried in it—may Allah pardon him.

Zumurrud (8) Khātūn, daughter of Jawālī and maternal half-sister of King Duqāq (9) ibn Tutush: she was the founder of the outer Khātūniyya (10) in Damascus, just outside the city near the village of Ṣanʿāʾ (11), at a place called Tell al-Thaʿālib to the west.