And Jamal al-Din ibn al-Bājurbuqī (1) taught at the Fathiyyah (2).
Burhān al-Din al-Iskandarī (3) lectured in the Qawṣiyyah located within the congregational mosque, and Shaykh Najm al-Din al-Dimashqī gave a lesson in the Sharifiyyah (4) near the Quarter of the Strangers.

In the same year the Nāṣiriyyah was returned to al-Fāriqī (5).

That year, at the Amīniyyah, Judge Najm al-Din ibn Ṣaṣray (6) succeeded Ibn al-Zamalkānī (7) as lecturer, and the smaller ʿĀdilīyyah (8) was taken from him and assigned to Kamāl al-Din ibn al-Zamalkānī.

Among the notable figures who died in this year was Arghun (9) ibn Abaqa, king of the Tatars (10). He was bold, courageous, and a prodigal shedder of blood. Having killed his uncle Sultan Ahmad ibn Hūlāgū, he rose greatly in the esteem of the Mongols (11). In this very year, however, he died after drinking a potion that had been laced with poison. The Mongols blamed the Jews—his vizier Saʿd al-Dawlah ibn al-Ṣafī was himself a Jew—so they killed a great many Jews and seized vast amounts of their wealth in every city of Iraq. They then disputed over whom to place on the throne. One faction favored Kaykhatu, seated him upon the royal throne, and he reigned for a time—some say a year, others less—after which they killed him and installed Bāydar (12) in his place.

News of Arghun’s death reached King al-Ashraf while he was besieging Acre, and he rejoiced greatly. Arghun’s reign had lasted eight years, and some historians of Iraq have praised him for his justice and sound governance (13).