replacing Shaykh Karīm al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Āmilī (1), who had already passed away. He had been a man of spiritual detachment and high aspiration. A splendid robe of honor was bestowed upon al-Qūnawī, and Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ (2) was present at the ceremony.

On Thursday, the third of Dhu al-Qaʿdah, the sāḥib ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Qalānisī (3) received the ministerial robe in Syria, replacing al-Najm al-Baṣrāwī, for the latter had been granted a fief carrying the rank of an “emirate of ten” and had turned away from the vizierate.

On Wednesday, the sixteenth of that same month, Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Zamalkanī resumed teaching at the Shāmiyyah al-Barrāniyyah (4).

That very day, Taqī al-Dīn, son of the sāḥib Shams al-Dīn ibn al-Salaʿūs (5), donned the robe of investiture as supervisor of the Umayyad Mosque.

Amir Sayf al-Dīn Asandamur, the deputy governor of Aleppo, was arrested on the twelfth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah and taken to Egypt (6). Likewise, the deputy of al-Bīrah (7), Sayf al-Dīn Ṭūghān (8), was seized a few nights later.

Among the notable figures who died this year was the Chief Judge, the erudite imam (9) Shams al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Sarūjī al-Ḥanafī, commentator on al-Hidāyah (10). Gifted in many branches of learning, he served as judge in Egypt for a time and was dismissed only days before his death. He died on Thursday, the twelfth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, and was buried near Imām al-Shāfiʿī. He had raised objections against Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah in the field of kalām (speculative theology), and Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn answered him in several volumes, nullifying his arguments (11).