During that same month the Syrian deputy governor, Jamal al-Din—now deputy of al-Karak—was arrested together with Shams al-Din Sunqur al-Kamali, chief chamberlain in Egypt, and five other amirs (1). All of them were confined in the citadel of al-Karak, inside one of its towers.

In that month a fire broke out inside Bab al-Salamah (2); many houses were consumed, among them the residence of Ibn Abi al-Fawaris and the house of al-Sharif al-Qabbani.

Tankiz’s Appointment over Syria (3)

On Thursday, the twentieth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, the amir Sayf al-Din Tankiz ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥusami al-Nasiri entered Damascus as deputy governor, following the arrest of the deputy of al-Karak (4). He was accompanied by a contingent of the sultan’s mamluks, among them al-Hajj Aruqtay (5), who was placed on the bread allowance formerly assigned to Baybars al-ʿAlāʾī. The populace streamed out to greet him with great joy. He took up residence in Dar al-Saʿadah, and at his arrival a torrential rain (6) fell—it was the twenty-fourth of Ab (August). On Friday he attended the sermon in the maqṣūrah, with candles lit along his route.

A decree reached Ibn Saṣrā restoring to him the judgeship of the army and authorizing him to supervise the awqāf (pious endowments), so that no one might share that authority with him in the Syrian provinces, in accordance with the practice of his Shafiʿi predecessors.

Another decree appointed Shams al-Din Abu Talib ibn Ḥumayd (7) to oversee the army in place of Ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyya, since the latter was residing in Egypt.

A few days later the chief minister, Muʿin al-Din (8) Hibat Allah ibn Hashish (9), Supervisor of the Army, arrived. He installed Ibn Ḥumayd in the post of Ibn al-Badr, while Ibn al-Badr departed to assume supervision of the army in Tripoli.

[Arghun assumed the deputy governorship of Egypt] (10).