The ruler of Yemen was al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn al-Mansur Nur al-Din ʿUmar ibn ʿAli ibn Rasul.

The ruler of Mecca was Najm al-Din Abu Numayy Muhammad ibn Idris ibn ʿAli ibn Qatadah al-Hasani (1).

The ruler of Medina was ʿIzz al-Din Jammaz ibn Shiha al-Husayni.

The ruler of Rum was Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw (2), the son of Rukn al-Din Qilij Arslan the Seljuq (3).

The ruler of Hama (4) was Taqi al-Din Mahmud (5) ibn al-Malik al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Malik al-Muzaffar Taqi al-Din Muhammad (6), while Khurasan and the surrounding regions were under Arghun ibn Abaqa ibn Hulagu (7) ibn Tuli ibn Chinggis Khan.

The first day of that year fell on a Thursday. On that day very large sums of gold and silver were given in charity on behalf of al-Malik al-Mansur. On the night of Friday the sultan was borne down to the mausoleum he had prepared for himself and was buried there beneath the dome; Badr al-Din Baydara and ʿAlam al-Din al-Shujaʿi descended into the grave. Great alms were distributed at that time. When al-Sahib Shams al-Din ibn al-Sallus returned from the Hijaz, robes of honour were bestowed upon him for the vizierate; Judge Muhyi al-Din ibn ʿAbd al-Zahir (8), the chancery scribe, penned his letter of appointment with his own hand. The new vizier then rode in the full splendour of his office to his residence and assumed authority.

On Friday Shams al-Din Sunqur al-Ashqar and Sayf al-Din ibn Jurmaq al-Nasiri were arrested, whereas Emir Zayn al-Din Kitbugha—who had been detained (9) together with Turuntay (10)—was released; his iqtaʿ was restored to him, and Taqi al-Din Tawbah was reinstated as vizier of Damascus once more. During the same year Ibn al-Khuwayyi drew up an official document stipulating that the professorship of the al-Nasiriyyah be assigned to the Shafiʿi judge, thereby removing it from Zayn al-Din (11) al-Farqi.