Do not draw near, though its fragrance waft abroad—between you it is the azure foe.

The gnostic Shaykh Sharaf al-Din (1) Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad, son of Shaykh ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Rūmī, was interred in their family cemetery at the foot of Mount Qāsiyūn. From that same place Shaykh Jamāl al-Din Muḥammad al-Sāwajī and a company of followers set out. He adopted the garb (2) of the jawāliqiyya (3) and became their shaykh and leading figure.

[Then the year 685 AH began]

It opened while the caliph al-Ḥākim Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad was in office, as was the sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (4). His viceroy in Syria was the amir Ḥusām al-Din Lājīn al-Silahdār al-Manṣūrī, and the amir Badr al-Din al-Ṣuʿābī was laying siege to the city of al-Karak toward the end of the previous year. A force (5) arrived from Egypt in the company of the amir Ḥusām al-Din Ṭurunṭāy (6), and together they maintained the siege of al-Karak until, on the first of Ṣafar, they brought down its ruler, al-Malik al-Masʿūd Khidr (7) ibn al-Malik al-Ẓāhir. News of the victory reached Damascus, where the victory drums (8) were beaten for three days. Ṭurunṭāy then returned with King Khidr and his household (9) to the Egyptian domains, just as King al-Ẓāhir—Khidr’s own father—had previously done with King al-Mughīth ʿUmar ibn al-ʿĀdil, as noted earlier (10).

A deputy was appointed in al-Karak by order of al-Manṣūr; its affairs were organized, many of its inhabitants were expelled, and they were put to work in the Citadel of Damascus.

When the family of al-Ẓāhir approached Cairo, al-Manṣūr went out to meet them, honored the encounter, and showed kindness (11) to the two brothers, Najm al-Din Khidr and Badr al-Din Sulamish. He had them ride beside his two sons, ʿAlī and al-Ashraf Khalīl, and he