captured on Wednesday, the seventh of Ramaḍān; after that Marʿash was taken as well, whereupon the victory drums were beaten (1). The army then moved on to the fortress of Ḥamūṣ (2), and a number of soldiers were wounded. Among them was Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar Ṭaqṣuba (3), who was struck by an arrow (4) in his thigh, and Emir ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Dawādārī, who was hit in the leg by a stone.

On Friday, the seventeenth (5) of Shawwāl, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah convened a public gathering devoted to jihad. He stirred the listeners and spoke at length about the immense reward awaiting those who fight in Allah’s cause; it was a large and dignified assembly (6).

In this same month King al-Masʿūd Najm al-Dīn Khuḍr, son of Sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir (7) Baybars, returned from the land of al-Ashkarī to Egypt (8), where he had remained since the days of al-Ashraf ibn al-Manṣūr. The sultan received him in ceremonial procession, honored (9) him, and accorded him great respect.

That year Emir Khuḍr, son of al-Ẓāhir, performed the ḥajj with the Egyptians, among whom was the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr (10) Allāh.

In Shawwāl the professors took up their posts at the college founded in Egypt by the viceroy of the sultanate (11), the Mankūtamiriyyah, located inside Bāb al-Qanṭarah.

Also that year the victory drums were sounded to celebrate the capture of the fortresses of Ḥamīmiṣ and Najm in the province of Sis.

That same year (12) a fast-moving detachment arrived from Egypt, heading for Sis as reinforcements for their comrades; it numbered about three thousand fighters (13).