indicating, “I shall not dismount here now,” and he rode on toward the Qasr al-Ablaq (the Striped Palace) with the emirs preceding him. The Friday sermon was then proclaimed in his name (1).

On the morning of Saturday, the twenty-second of the month, Emir Jamāl al-Dīn Aqūsh al-Afram, the deputy of Damascus, arrived in obedience to the sultan. He kissed the ground before him, whereupon the sultan dismounted, honored him, and confirmed him in his vice-regency as before. The people rejoiced at al-Afram’s submission.

Emir Sayf al-Dīn Qabjaq (2), deputy of Ḥamā, and Emir Sayf al-Dīn Asandamur (3), deputy of Tripoli, likewise came to him on Monday, the twenty-fourth of Shaʿbān. The populace went out to receive them, and the sultan welcomed them just as he had welcomed al-Afram.

That same day the sultan decreed that the Hanbalī judgeship be restored to Taqī al-Dīn Sulaymān (4). The people congratulated him; he visited the sultan in the palace, saluted him, and then proceeded to the Jawziyya (5), where he served as judge for three months.

The second Friday prayer was held in the Maydān (6); the sultan attended with the judges at his side, the foremost emirs and officials, and a great crowd of commoners.

On that very day (7) Emir Qarāsunqur al-Manṣūrī, deputy of Aleppo, arrived before the sultan.

The royal camp set out on Thursday, 4 Ramaḍān, accompanied at the ʿAṣr hour by the judges and Qur’an-reciters. The Friday prayer of 5 Ramaḍān was likewise held in the Maydān. The sultan then departed Damascus on Tuesday, 9 Ramaḍān, in the company of Ibn Ṣaṣrā, Ṣadr al-Dīn the Ḥanafī—judge of the armies—the preacher Jalāl al-Dīn, Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Zamalkanī, the secretaries, the Military Chancery, and the entire Syrian army, which had gathered around him from every city and province with their banners and emirs. When the sultan reached Gaza he entered it in magnificent pomp. Emir Sayf al-Dīn Bahādur and a number of Egyptian emirs came out to meet him and informed him that al-Malik al-Muẓaffar had abdicated the throne. Emirs kept arriving from Egypt confirming the report, whereupon the hearts of the Syrians were gladdened, the glad-tidings drums were beaten (8), though the courier bearing the official dispatch of what had occurred was slow to arrive (9).

It also happened on that feast day that the deputy preacher, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn al-Jazarī (10), went out