al-Fami ⦗1⦘, until the walls had risen to the height of a man. At that point his funds—and all the money he had on hand—were exhausted. King al-Muẓaffar Kukburi ⦗2⦘ ibn Zayn al-Din, lord of Irbil, thereupon sent a large sum so that the project could be completed ⦗3⦘, and it was finished. He also forwarded one thousand dinars for water to be brought in from Barzah ⦗4⦘, but the king al-Muʿaẓẓam, ruler of Damascus, would not permit this, pleading that the route would run over many Muslim graves. A well was therefore dug for the mosque, with a mule to turn the waterwheel, and an endowment ⦗5⦘ was established to cover its upkeep.

In the same year there were many battles and long-drawn troubles between the Khwārazmians and the Ghūrids in the eastern lands, the details of which Ibn al-Athir ⦗6⦘ has set forth at length.

That year, Majd al-Din Yaḥyā ibn al-Rabīʿ began teaching at the Niẓāmiyya. He was invested with an eminent black robe and a dark-blue turban, and the scholars and dignitaries attended his inaugural lecture.

In that year as well, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Jīlī assumed the judgeship in Baghdad, receiving a robe of honor on his appointment.

Among the notable deaths this year ⦗7⦘ was that of the judge Ibn al-Zakī ⦗8⦘: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ⦗9⦘ ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Abū al-Maʿālī al-Qurashī, Muḥyī al-Dīn, Chief Judge of Damascus.

Every one of his forebears ⦗10⦘—his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī mentioned above—had served as judges, the last being the first of the family to hold office in Damascus. He was also the maternal grandfather of the ḥadith scholar Abū al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAsākir, who, in his History ⦗11⦘, recorded his biography but added nothing beyond the designation “al-Qurashī.”