the bathhouses, and that they were not to be employed in any public capacity. The disturbance subsided and the fires stopped. (1)
In Jumada al-Ākhirah the Tatar ruler Abū Saʿīd demolished the bazaar (2), arranged marriages for the prostitutes, poured out the wine, and imposed the severest punishments in the matter. The Muslims rejoiced at this and prayed for him—may Allah have mercy on him and pardon him.
On the thirteenth of Jumada al-Ākhirah the Friday prayer was held at the Qasab Mosque (3), with Shaykh ʿAlī al-Manākhī delivering the sermon.
On Thursday, the nineteenth of Jumada al-Ākhirah, the bathhouse Tankiz had built opposite his mosque was opened. Because of its beauty, abundant light, and marble, it was rented out each day for forty dirhams.
On Saturday, the nineteenth of Rajab, the Karaites’ synagogue situated opposite the Jewish Quarter was demolished after it had been proven before the ḥākamī court that it was a recent construction. (4) Royal decrees had arrived ordering this.
Late in Rajab the Sultan’s gifts were dispatched to Abū Saʿīd, king of the Tatars, with Khwāja Majd al-Dīn al-Salāmī as envoy; they included fifty camels, horses, and a ḥimār ʿatabī, a pedigree donkey.
In mid-Ramadan the Friday prayer was conducted in the Karīmī Mosque at al-Qābūn, (5) where the Ḥanafī jurist Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Turkumānī, the imam of al-Qābūn, preached. The judges, the Ṣāḥib, and a number of notables attended.
Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn states:
The scholar Qiwām al-Dīn Kātib, son of the amir ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAmīd al-Qāzānī, (6) lecturer at the shrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah in Baghdad, reached Damascus at the beginning of Ramadan. He had performed the Hajj that year, then traveled on to Egypt where he stayed several months, after which he passed through Damascus on his way back to Baghdad, lodging in the Ḥanafī Khātūniyyah. He was versed in many disciplines, inquiry, literature, and jurisprudence.
The Syrian caravan set out on Monday, the tenth of Shawwal; its amir was Shams al-Dīn Ḥamzah al-Turkumānī (7) and its judge Najm al-Dīn al-Dimashqī (8). That year Tankiz, the viceroy of Syria, also went on Hajj with a group of his family, and he had come from Egypt