—Mount Kisrawan and to cleanse it of the various innovators who had broken with the Sacred Law, defied the authorities, and separated themselves from the Muslim community. He reproduces in full the Shaykh’s letter to Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir on this matter (pp. 228–249).

– He then alludes to the encounter the Shaykh had with the Rifa‘i Ahmadis, laying bare the unsoundness of their doctrines and practices (pp. 250–251).

– Next he quotes—briefly from al-Dhahabi and at length from al-Barzali—what befell the Shaykh in the trial over his work al-Hamawiyya in 698 AH, the inquiry into his creed in 705 AH, and his summons to Egypt (pp. 251–263).

– After that he recounts the doctrinal debate held for the Shaykh in three sessions, inserting a long extract from the Shaykh’s own writing on the subject (pp. 264–308).

– He then relates the Shaykh’s summons to Egypt, his journey there, and what he faced of imprisonment, debates, and other events (pp. 309–317).

– The author proceeds to present several letters the Shaykh dispatched from Egypt to his mother, relatives, and companions (pp. 318–330, 349–352).

– He further records a letter from Sharaf al-Din Ibn Taymiyya to his maternal brother Badr al-Din (pp. 338–343).

– Finally, he returns to some of the incidents that occurred to the Shaykh in Egypt with the Sufis, the rabble, and others, followed by his deportation to Alexandria, then