in the congregational mosque, and it contained instructions to spread justice, remove oppression, and abolish the farming-out of endowments and privately owned property except with the owners’ consent.

On the twenty-second of Shaʿbān ⦗1⦘ Judge Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī ⦗2⦘—the brother of Imām al-Dīn—delivered a lesson in the Masrūriyyah school. His brother, the Chief Judge Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Khuwayyī, attended, as did Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah, and the gathering was thronged with listeners.

Al-Barzalī relates: In that same month of Shaʿbān word spread that, in the thicket at Jisrīn, a huge dragon ⦗3⦘ had swallowed the entire head of a large, healthy goat.

Toward the end of Ramaḍān Emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn reappeared. He had been in hiding since the murder of al-Ashraf; he offered his excuses to the sultan, who accepted them, bestowed robes of honor upon him, and treated him generously, for the killing had not been of his own choosing.

In Shawwāl ⦗4⦘ of that year it became known that Muḥannā ibn ʿĪsā had broken with Sultan al-Nāṣir and gone over to the Tatars ⦗5⦘.

On Wednesday, the eighth of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, the preacher Sharaf al-Dīn al-Maqdisī taught in the Ghazāliyyah school in place of the late Chief Judge Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn al-Khuwayyī, who had died and left vacant the Shāmiyyah al-Barāniyyah. Judge Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah ⦗6⦘ arrived to assume the judiciary of Syria on Thursday, the fourteenth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah. He took up residence in the ʿĀdiliyya, and the deputy of the sultan together with the entire army went out to receive him ⦗7⦘. Poets composed panegyrics in his honor; he appointed Tāj al-Dīn al-Jaʿbarī as deputy preacher ⦗8⦘ and assigned Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn al-Fāriqī ⦗9⦘ to teach at the Shāmiyyah al-Barāniyyah in place of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Maqdisī. The Nāsiriyyah school was taken from the latter’s hand, whereupon Ibn Jamāʿah himself ⦗10⦘ began teaching there, and he also lectured in the ʿĀdiliyya on the twentieth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah.

During that same month all dogs were driven out of Damascus into the open countryside by order ⦗11⦘ of its governor, Jamāl al-Dīn Aqbay ⦗12⦘, who enforced the measure strictly upon the populace and the city gatekeepers.