Also in this year:
A fire broke out in Aleppo, burning down six hundred houses, and it is said that the Franks—may Allah curse them—had purposely set it (1).

Also in this year:
The Chief Judge ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Nahraqullī restored the affairs of the Tājiyyah Madrasa (2), which (3) a group of commoners had seized and, for a long time, turned into something like a caravanserai where they bought and sold (4). It is a fine, attractive school, closely resembling (5) the Niẓāmiyyah. Its builder was a certain Tāj al-Dīn (6), vizier to Malik Shāh the Seljuq, and the first to lecture there was Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Shāshī (7).

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The death occurred of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Maṭrūḥ (8). He had been a learned, prominent, and shrewd poet, one of the foremost (9) of the turban-wearing scholars. At one time al-Malik (10) al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb appointed him deputy over Damascus, whereupon he donned (11) the uniform of the soldiery.

Al-Sibt (12) commented that such attire did not befit him. Among Ibn Maṭrūḥ’s verse is the poem he composed for al-Nāṣir Dāwud, lord of al-Karāk, when the latter recovered Jerusalem from the Franks after it had been surrendered to them in 636 AH during the reign of al-Kāmil; on that occasion the poet—namely (13) Ibn Maṭrūḥ, may Allah have mercy on him (14)—recited:
[metre: sarīʿ]