c) His transcription of the introduction to al-Hamawiyyah together with selected excerpts from it (pp. 111–144).
d) His record of the Shaykh’s debates with Ibn al-Marḥal (pp. 145–167).
e) His reproduction of the Shaykh’s treatise on the Tatar invasion of Greater Syria and its comparison with the Battle of the Trench (pp. 173–226).
f) The Shaykh’s letter to al-Malik al-Nāṣir after the Mount Kisrawān campaign (pp. 235–247).
g) His account of the doctrinal disputation (pp. 262–306).
h) The Shaykh’s letters to his relatives while he was in Egypt (pp. 326–328, 347–350).
i) The Shaykh’s legal opinion on the matter of visitation (pp. 400–410).
j) And the letters he wrote in charcoal from his cell in the Citadel of Damascus (pp. 438–442).

The second category: texts authored by others.

1. His transcription of the book al-Tadhkirah wa’l-Iʿtibār wa’l-Intiṣār li’l-Abrār by ʿImād al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī, known as Ibn Shaykh al-Ḥazzāmīn (pp. 356–387).
2. The scholars’ replies in defence of the Shaykh on the issue of visitation (pp. 412–434).
3. Poems of elegy and praise (pp. 452–590).

I say: These passages—long as they are, amounting to two-thirds of the book—