al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī. Yet al-Manṣūr went on to seize (1) Bulunyāwl Marqiyya (2), a small coastal town lying beside an extraordinarily strong fortress that could be reached by neither arrow nor catapult-stone. He ordered the lord of Tripoli to demolish that fortress, and the latter did so to curry favor with Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr. Al-Manṣūr also liberated a great many Muslim captives who had been held by the Franks—praise be to Allah.
Al-Manṣūr then returned to Damascus and afterwards marched with the Egyptian troops to Cairo (3).
In the closing days of Jumada al-Ākhira, al-Manṣūr’s son, al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn, was born (4).
Further events of the year:
• Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Naḥḥās (5) was removed from the supervision of the congregational mosque, and the post was entrusted to ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī.
• Ibn al-Naḥḥās assumed the vizierate in place of al-Taqī Tawba al-Tikrītī (6), while al-Taqī Tawba was summoned to Egypt and his funds and properties were placed under sequestration (7).
• Sayf al-Dīn Ṭughān (8) was dismissed from the governorship of Medina, which was taken over by ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ (9).
Among the notable deaths this year:
Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shaddād (10) passed away in Ṣafar. A celebrated scholar, he authored The Life of King al-Ẓāhir and was deeply devoted to history (11). May Allah have mercy on him.
Al-Bunduqdār (12), the tutor of King al-Ẓāhir Baybars, was the eminent amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Aydukin (13) al-Bunduqdārī al-Ṣāliḥī.