and Shams al-Din al-Maʿrifi, who faulted him in several passages [89] in which he had claimed consensus. The discussion revolved around the question of the Throne, the divine Speech, and the Divine Descent.

On the Friday immediately following that day (1), Shaykh Sharaf al-Din was brought alone to the council of the Deputy of the Sultanate. Ibn ʿAdlān was also present. Shaykh Sharaf al-Din spoke with him, debated him, engaged him in discussion, and prevailed over him (2).

On the twenty-fourth of Safar in the year 707 AH, the judge Badr al-Din Ibn Jamaʿah (3) met Shaykh Taqi al-Din in the residence of al-Awḥadī inside the Citadel early on Friday morning; they parted before the prayer, after a lengthy exchange.

[The Emir Ibn Muhanna and the Shaykh’s Release from the Pit]

In Rabiʿ al-Awwal of the same year, Emir Husam al-Din Muhanna ibn ʿIsa, the “King of the Arabs,” entered Egypt and came in person to the Pit. After obtaining permission, he released Shaykh Taqi al-Din, who on Friday the twenty-third of that month (4) proceeded to the Deputy of the Sultanate’s residence in the Citadel, where a number of jurists were in attendance,