were stationed in Aleppo, while the Bedouin surrounded the frontiers of the land. Qarāsunqur al-Manṣūrī therefore set out from Damascus on the 3rd of Muḥarram with all his baggage, household, and followers. The army went out to bid him farewell, and Arghun accompanied him to install him in Aleppo. A royal decree then reached the castellan, Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Bahādur al-Sinjarī (1), instructing him to manage the affairs of Damascus until a new deputy arrived. The vizier and the chancery secretaries attended him, whereupon he assumed the deputyship, and his authority grew strong. (2) The vizier’s own influence likewise increased; he distributed a number of posts, among them appointing his nephew ʿImād al-Dīn to the supervision of the prisoners (3), a charge that remained with him.

The viceroy, Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-Manṣūrī, arrived in Damascus to take up the deputyship on Thursday, the 21st of Muḥarram; the people went out to greet him and lit candles in celebration.

On Sunday, the 24th of Muḥarram (4), the preacher’s enclosure was returned to its place and the populace felt relief. On Thursday, the 13th of Ṣafar, Najm al-Baṣrāwī donned the robe of amirship in the viziers’ fashion, wearing the ṭarḥah. He rode out with the senior commanders, holding the rank of amir of ten with an iqṭāʿ comparable to that of the foremost officers of the ṭablakhānah.

On Wednesday, the 17th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, the four judges convened in the mosque to execute an order concerning witnesses after some of them had committed forgery. When the viceroy learned of it he grew angry and ordered the session, but nothing significant came of it and the situation remained unchanged.

On that same day the sharif, head of the Prophet’s descendants, Amīn al-Dīn Jaʿfar ibn (5) Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAdnān, was appointed to oversee the bureaus in place of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī, and Taqī al-Dīn ibn al-Zakī (6) was reinstated as shaykh al-shuyūkh.

During the same session Ibn Jamāʿah was granted the professorship of the Nāṣiriyya in Cairo, while Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Nashāʾī (7) received the Shāfiʿī chair, the general lecture at the Ibn Ṭulun Mosque, and the supervision of the aḥbās (endowments).

The vizierate in Egypt was conferred upon Amīn al-Mulk Abū Saʿīd, replacing Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Baktamur the ḥājib, in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir (8).

In this same month the vizier ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Qalansī in Damascus was placed under close surveillance for two months; the viceroy was greatly vexed with him, but eventually released him.

Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah was restored to the judgeship in the Egyptian provinces on the 11th of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, together with the teaching post at the Dār