and he also captured Sultan Shah along with his treasuries, so his prestige increased greatly. Thereafter he and Sultan Ṭughril Beg met in battle in the month of Rabiʿ al-Awwal of this same year. Ṭughril Beg was killed, and his head was sent to the caliph; it was set up (1) for several days at the Gate of the Guard (Bāb al-Nawbah). The caliph then dispatched the khilʿa (robe of honor) and the diploma of investiture to Khwārazm Shah, who took possession of Hamadan (2) and other broad territories.

In the same year:
The caliph took offense at Shaykh Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī (3), grew angry with him (4), and banished him to Wāsiṭ. He remained there (5) five days without eating any food (6), and he stayed on for five years, tending to his own needs and drawing (7) his own water, though he was an old man of eighty (8). He completed one full recitation of the Quran every day and night. He said, “While I was there I did not recite (9) Sūrat Yūsuf because of the sorrow I felt for my son Yūsuf, until Allah granted him relief, as will be explained later, God Most High willing (10).”

Among the notable deaths in this year (11):
• Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsuf, Abū al-Khair al-Qazwīnī, the Shāfiʿī Qur’an exegete (12). He came to Baghdad and preached at the Niẓāmiyyah. He followed the Ashʿarī school in matters of creed. On the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ he was sitting when some people said to him, “Curse Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah!” He replied, “He was an imam who exercised independent judgment.” The crowd then pelted him with bricks, so he hid himself and later fled to Qazwīn.
• Al-Shāṭibī (13), author of the Shāṭibiyyah (14), Abū al-Qāsim ibn Firrah (15) ibn Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Ruʿaynī al-Shāṭibī.