and deference to his commands and prohibitions. In this way the word of Allah was raised high above the enemies of Allah and His Messenger; they were cursed both privately and publicly, inwardly and outwardly, and denounced in people’s gatherings by their very names. When this reached Nasr al-Manbijī, the resident superintendent, he was seized by a fear and humiliation beyond description, and the letter went on at considerable length. ⦗1⦘

In short, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn remained in the frontier city of Alexandria for eight months, living in a spacious, handsome, and spotless tower that had two windows—one overlooking the sea and the other the city. Whoever wished could visit him, and the leading figures, dignitaries, and jurists came and went, reading to him and taking knowledge from him, while he lived in the best of conditions and with a heart at ease.

At the end of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Zamlakānī was dismissed from the superintendency of the bīmāristān ⦗2⦘—because of his association with Ibn Taymiyyah, at the instigation of al-Manbijī ⦗3⦘—and Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Khiṭīrī was appointed in his place.

On Tuesday, the third of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, the judgeship of the Ḥanbalīs in Egypt was granted to the eminent ḥadīth master, Shaykh Saʿd al-Dīn Abū Maḥmūd Masʿūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd ibn Zayd al-Ḥārithī ⦗4⦘, the shaykh of ḥadīth in Egypt, following the death of the judge Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Naṣr ibn Abī Bakr al-Ḥarrānī.

In Jumādā al-Ūlā triumphant sultanic decrees were sent to the deputies of the coastal provinces ⦗6⦘ ordering the abolition of wine, the demolition of taverns, and the banishment of their proprietors. The orders were carried out, and the Muslims rejoiced exceedingly.

At the beginning of Jumādā al-Ākhirah a courier arrived appointing Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥasan, son of the ḥadīth master Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Mūsā ʿAbd Allāh—himself the son of the ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī ⦗7⦘—to the Ḥanbalī judiciary in Damascus, in place of Taqī Sulaymān ibn Ḥamzah, because the latter had stated that al-Malik al-Nāṣir had abdicated the throne under coercion, not by choice; and what he said was true.

On the twentieth of Jumādā al-Ākhirah a courier arrived conferring the office of comptroller of the dīwāns on Emir Sayf al-Dīn Baktamur the ḥājib ⦗8⦘ in place of al-Rustumī ⦗9⦘, but he declined the appointment. The supervision of the treasury was granted to Emir ʿIzz al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Zayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn