there, and their ruler Khurbandā, the Tatar deputy (1) over Malatya (2), was killed.

In the same year:
Jamal al-Din Yūsuf ibn al-Taqī Tawbah al-Tikrītī (3) assumed the office of ḥisba in Damascus, but after a few months Taj al-Din al-Shīrāzī took it over.

That same year:
Because restoration work was under way in the maqṣūra, a pulpit was set up beside the Companions’ miḥrāb. Burhān al-Din al-Iskandarī (4), the deputy khaṭīb, led the people there in the five daily congregations and the Friday prayers for a full month, beginning on Friday, the twenty-second of Dhū al-Ḥijjah (5).

Among the notable deaths in that year were:

—Shaykha Fāṭimah bint Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Zuʿbī (6), the wife of Najm ibn Isrāʾīl. She came from a household committed to spiritual poverty, yet she enjoyed authority, boldness, and considerable renown, and she spoke on the path of the Ḥarīriyya and others (7). A great multitude attended her funeral, and she was buried near Shaykh Ruslān.

—The scholar known as Ibn al-Ṣāḥib (8), the debauched shaykh (9)—namely, the esteemed Shaykh (10) ʿAlam al-Din Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shukr. Born into a family of learning and leadership, he taught in several madrasas and enjoyed prestige and influence. Later, however, he abandoned all of that, consorting with the ḥarāfīsh, imitating them in dress and behavior, and taking to the use and consumption of ḥashīsh. He possessed (11) a sharp wit in matters of frivolity, licentiousness, and exceedingly refined bons mots in which few could equal him.