Abū al-Qāsim al-Dargazīnī, Qawām al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan (al-Ḥusayn) (d. 527/1133), was vizier and one of the chief administrators of the Saljūqs in Khurāsān and Iraq. He was born into a family of landowners from the village of Anasābād, near Dargazīn in the Aʿlam region of Hamadān (al-Bundārī, 118), thus he was also called Abū al-Qāsim al-Anasābādī (al-Rāwandī, Muḥammad, 170; Ibn al-Athīr, 10/652). However, he linked himself to Dargazīn because of its reputation and importan…