of Zizya (1), and that he then made for Muḥannā ibn ʿĪsā, seeking his protection in fear for his life and accompanied by a number of his closest followers. After all this he departed for the Tatars, with al-Afram (2) and al-Zardakash (3) in his company.

On the twentieth of Dhū al-Qiʿda Amīr Sayf al-Dīn Arghūn reached Damascus at the head of five thousand men, and they moved toward the region of Ḥimṣ and the neighboring districts.

On the seventh of Dhū al-Ḥijja Shaykh Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-Shurayshī arrived from Egypt, his agency (4) having been continued. He bore a decree appointing him judge of the Syrian army, and on the Day of ʿArafah (5) he was invested with a robe of honor.

That same day three thousand troops under the command of Sayf al-Dīn Millī (6) came from Egypt and set out after their comrades for the northern territories.

At the close of the month Shaykh (7) Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kāshgharī (8) arrived from Cairo with a decree confirming him as shaykh al-shuyūkh. He took up residence in the khānqāh and formally assumed the post in the presence of the judges and notables, whereupon Ibn al-Zakī relinquished it.

During this same period Ṣadr ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn al-Athīr (9) assumed the office of kitābat al-sirr in Egypt, while Sharaf al-Dīn ibn Faḍl Allāh was removed from that position and transferred to the kitābat al-sirr in Damascus in place of his brother Muḥyī al-Dīn. Muḥyī al-Dīn, meanwhile, continued as kātib al-dast with his customary stipend. Allah knows best.

Among the notable deaths of the year was Shaykh al-Raʾīs Badr al-Dīn: Muḥammad, son of the chief physician Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Anṣārī (10) — a descendant of Saʿd ibn Muʿādh — al-Suwaydī, from Suwaydāʾ in Ḥawrān. He had transmitted hadith and excelled in the practice of medicine.