at his loss and regarded his murder as a grave atrocity. He had been gallant, courageous, of lofty ambition, and handsome appearance. He had resolved to march on Iraq and wrest that land from the Tatars, made preparations for the expedition, and proclaimed it throughout his dominions. During his three-year reign he captured Acre and all the ⦗1⦘ coastal fortresses, leaving the Franks there neither landmark nor stone upon another; he also took Qalʿat al-Rūm, Bahasnā, and other strongholds.
When the oath of allegiance to al-Nāṣir ⦗2⦘ reached Damascus, the Friday sermon was delivered there in his name and affairs became firmly settled on that basis. The emir Kitbughā was appointed his atabeg, while al-Shujāʿī was made chief counsellor. A few days later he ⦗3⦘ was slain in the Citadel of the Mountain; his head was carried to Kitbughā, who ordered that it be paraded through the city. The populace rejoiced greatly at this and rewarded those who bore the head with money, and no rival to Kitbughā remained. Even so, he continued to consult the emirs ⦗4⦘ to soothe their hearts.
In Ṣafar ⦗5⦘, after the death of Ibn al-Salʿūs, Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah was dismissed from the judiciary and Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Bint al-Aʿazz was reinstated, while Ibn Jamāʿah remained in Egypt as a professor, enjoying competence and prestige.
The vizierate in Egypt was taken up by al-Ṣāḥib Tāj al-Dīn ⦗6⦘ Ibn al-Ḥinnā.
On Wednesday noon, the twenty-first of Ṣafar, an imam was appointed to the Miḥrāb al-Ṣaḥābah: Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn the qāḍī Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī. Thereafter he led the prayer following the khaṭīb. An imam was likewise installed in the maktab located at Bāb al-Nāṭifāniyyīn ⦗7⦘: Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn al-Iskandarī. Supervision of the Noble Mosque was undertaken by Zayn al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdnān. The silk-merchants’ market returned to its own bazaar, and the cotton caravanserai ⦗8⦘—in which Ṭughjī’s deputies had compelled them to reside—was vacated.
The Friday pulpit of Damascus was entrusted to the eminent scholar Shaykh Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Niʿmah ibn Aḥmad al-Maqdisī ⦗9⦘ after the dismissal of Muwaffaq al-Dīn al-Ḥamawī ⦗10⦘, who was summoned to Ḥamāh. Al-Maqdisī delivered the Friday sermon on the fifteenth of Rajab; his letter of investiture was read aloud, and his appointment had been made on the recommendation of Tāj al-Dīn Ibn al-Ḥinnā, the vizier in Egypt. He was eloquent, articulate, learned, and accomplished.