the benefactress of the Ḥāfiẓiyya endowment. She was the khātūn (1) Arghawān (2) al-Ḥāfiẓiyya. She bore this epithet because she had served and raised al-Ḥāfiẓ, lord of the Citadel of Jaʿbar. Intelligent and astute, she lived to an advanced age and possessed immense and abundant wealth. She was the one who used to prepare meals for al-Mughīth ʿUmar ibn al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb, but al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl later confiscated her property, taking from her four hundred chests of money (3). She endowed her house in Damascus to her attendants, and she purchased the Orchard of al-Najīb Yāqūt (4) — formerly the servant of Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Kindī (5) — where she established a tomb and a mosque, endowing it with many fine (6) charitable trusts. May Allah have mercy upon him.

The founder of the Amīniyya endowment in Baalbek:

Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Ghazal the physician (7), vizier of al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl Abū al-Khaysh—a man ill-omened for himself and for his sultan, and the very cause of the blessing’s withdrawal from both of them, the archetype of the evil minister. Al-Sibt (8) accused him of merely feigning (9) piety, claiming that in truth he had no religion at all. Thus Allah, exalted is He, relieved the generality of Muslims of him. He was killed in this same year: after al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl disappeared in Egypt, certain amirs seized him and Ibn Yaghmūr (10), hanged them, and crucified them side by side on the citadel of Cairo (11). Among Amīn al-Dawlah Ghazal’s possessions they found wealth, gifts, jewels, and furnishings valued at three million dinars, together with ten thousand volumes in elegant script and other exquisite, precious manuscripts.