Section: On the death of al-Malik al-Manṣūr ʿIzz al-Dīn Farrukhshāh (1) ibn Shāhinshāh ibn Ayyūb, lord of Baʿalbek and viceroy of Damascus on behalf of his uncle, al-Malik Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn.
He was the father of al-Malik al-Amjad Bahrāmshāh (2), who likewise governed Baʿalbek after the aforementioned father. The Farrukhshāhiyyah Madrasa (3) in the Northern Citadel (al-Sharaf al-Shamālī) is named after him, and beside it stands the Amjadiyya mausoleum he built for his son, serving both the Ḥanafī and Shāfiʿī schools.
Farrukhshāh was gallant, courageous, and valiant; intelligent, perceptive, virtuous, generous, and much praised. Poets lauded him for his liberality, excellence, and beneficence. He was among the foremost disciples of Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn Abū’l-Yaman al-Kindī (4), whom he first met in the majlis of al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil; he attached himself to the shaykh and treated him kindly (5). Both the shaykh and al-ʿImād al-Kātib composed eulogies in his honour.
He himself—may Allah have mercy on him—(6) wrote polished and graceful poetry; among it is the following (7), in the mujzūʾ al-raml metre:
I lie in the captivity of sickness,
smitten with love for this young lad. (8)
A slender fawn—his eyes let fly (9)
at my heart their piercing arrows.
(1) His biography appears in al-Khurayda – beginning of the section on the poets of ash-Sham (pp. 113–133); Ibn al-Athir (vol. 9, p. 160); Mirʾat al-Zaman (vol. 8, p. 272); ar-Rawdatan (vol. 2, p. 33); Abū al-Fidāʾ (vol. 3, p. 65); Tārīkh al-Islām (vol. 12, p. 617); and al-ʿIbar (vol. 4, pp. 233, 235) – Beirut ed. (vol. 3, p. 74).
(2) Died in 628 AH; his biography appears in Mirʾat al-Zaman (vol. 8, pp. 266–268); Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 2, p. 453); and al-ʿIbar – Beirut ed. (vol. 3, p. 200).
(3) The Farḵshāhiyya madrasa was endowed by Farḵshāh’s mother. According to Badrān, it became a garden, leaving only two domes: the larger the madrasa, the smaller the Amjadiyya funerary monument. (Munādamat al-Aṭlāl, pp. 190–191).
(4) He was Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Kindī, nicknamed Taj al-Dīn al-Baghdādī al-Dimashqī; born in 520 AH, he studied under al-Jawālīqī, Ibn al-Khaššāb, and Ibn al-Shajarī. He travelled to Aleppo, then moved to Damascus, where he joined the entourage of the emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Farḵshāh ibn Shāhinshāh and enjoyed his patronage, later accompanying him to Egypt. He died in Damascus in 163 AH. His biography is cited in al-Khurayda – section on ash-Sham (vol. 1, p. 100); Maʿjam al-Udabāʾ (vol. 11, p. 171); Ibn al-Athīr (vol. 9, p. 2312); Inbāh ar-Ruwāt (vol. 2, p. 10); Dhayl ar-Rawdatan (p. 15); Wafayāt al-Aʿyān (vol. 2, pp. 339–342); Abū al-Fidāʾ (vol. 3, p. 117); al-ʿIbar – Beirut ed. (vol. 3, p. 159); and Mirʾat al-Jinān (vol. 4, p. 26). His biography will also appear in its proper place in this book.
(5) From manuscript Ṭ only.
(6) From manuscript A only.
(7) The verses are found in ar-Rawdatan (vol. 2, p. 34) and Munādamat al-Aṭlāl (p. 192).
(8) In Ṭ: as read in this context.
(9) In Ṭ: reads yurshaq.