by the emir known as Abu Khurs (1). Lājīn therefore mounted to flee, but ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Duwādārī prevailed upon him to return (2) and brought him before the sultan, who reassured him and bestowed a robe of honor upon him. Three (days) later the sultan had him arrested, sent him to the fortress of Ṣafad, and placed his possessions under sequestration. He also ordered the arrest of his majordomo (3), Badr al-Dīn Bikdash (4). Events then took place that were unseemly under such conditions, for the moment was one of hardship, straitness, and siege.

The sultan (5) remained determined to press the siege. He assembled three hundred loads of kūsāt, the great war kettle-drums, and on Friday, the seventeenth of Jumādā I (6), he advanced. At sunrise all the drums were beaten in unison, and with the rising of the sun the Muslims scaled the ramparts. Islamic banners (7) were planted atop the city walls (8); the Franks thereupon turned and fled, scrambling onto merchants’ ships. A number known only to Allah, exalted is He, were slain, and the Muslims captured an exceedingly large amount of goods, captives, and merchandise. The sultan ordered the city to be demolished and razed so thoroughly that it could never again be of use. Allah granted its conquest on a Friday, just as the Franks had seized it from the Muslims on a Friday. Tyre and Sidon surrendered to al-Ashraf (9); thus the entire coast (10) was secured for the Muslims, cleansed of the unbelievers, and the very root of the wrongdoing people was cut off—praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.

A dispatch reached Damascus with this news, and the Muslims rejoiced; drums of glad tidings resounded in all the fortresses (11), the towns were festooned for strollers and sightseers, and the sultan sent an emir to Tyre (12) who demolished its walls and effaced its traces. The Franks had held it since the year 518 AH.

As for Acre, al-Malik al-Nāṣir Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb had wrested it from the Franks, but the Franks later returned