there and in Egypt, together with the office of ḥisba, as well as in Alexandria and elsewhere; yet in his final days nothing remained to him but the supervision of the awqāf in Damascus. He died ⦗1⦘ almost eighty years old and was buried on Mount Qasyun.

On the ninth ⦗2⦘ of Shawwāl the Syrian ḥajj caravan set out. Its amir was Sayf al-Din Arghūn al-Silahdar al-Nāṣirī, who lived near the Dār al-Ṭirāz in Damascus. From Egypt, Sayf al-Din the dawādār and the Chief Judge Ibn Jamāʿa also performed the pilgrimage. That same year Ibn Jamāʿa visited the Noble Jerusalem after the death of his son, the preacher Jamāl al-Din ʿAbd Allāh, who had been a foremost scholar of considerable standing.

In Dhu al-Qaʿdah, Amīr Sayf al-Din Tankiz traveled to visit Jerusalem and was away for twenty days.

During the same month Amīr Sayf al-Din Baktamur the Chamberlain arrived in Damascus from Egypt. He had been imprisoned but was released, honored, and appointed deputy of Ṣafad; after settling his affairs in Damascus he proceeded to his new post.

Judge Ḥusām al-Din al-Qazwīnī was transferred from the judiciary of Ṣafad to that of Tripoli, and the judgeship of Ṣafad was restored to the jurisdiction of the judge of Damascus, who appointed Ibn Ṣaṣrā Sharf al-Din al-Nahāwandī ⦗3⦘, formerly judge of Tripoli. With Baktamur came the eunuch Ẓahīr al-Din Mukhtār, known as al-Zarʿī, who was put in charge of the castle treasury in place of the eunuch Ẓahīr al-Din Mukhtār al-Bilbīsī ⦗4⦘, who had died.

That same month—Dhu al-Qaʿdah—news arrived of the death of the Tatar king Khurbandā Muḥammad ⦗5⦘ ibn Arghun ibn Abghā ibn Hūlāgū Qān, ruler of Iraq, Khurasan, Persian Iraq, Rūm, Azerbaijan, the Armenian lands, and Diyār Bakr. He died on the twenty-seventh of Ramaḍān and was buried in the mausoleum he had built in the city he founded, called al-Sultāniyya. He was just past thirty, renowned for generosity and fond of entertainment, games, and building projects. He openly promoted rafḍ (Shiʿism) in his dominions ⦗6⦘: after spending a year on the Sunnī path he turned to rafḍ, established its rituals throughout his territories, and showed especial favor to Shaykh Jamāl al-Din ibn Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī ⦗7⦘, a disciple of Naṣīr al-Din al-Ṭūsī, granting him several fiefs. He remained committed to that corrupt doctrine until his death this year.

During his reign great strife and grave calamities occurred; with his passing, may Allah grant relief to His servants and His lands.