his deputy in Syria was Tankiz; the Syrian judges were the Shafiʿi Jamal al-Din al-Zurʿi (1), the Hanafi Sadr ʿAli al-Busrawi, the Maliki Sharaf al-Din al-Hamdani (2), and the Hanbali Shams al-Din ibn Muslim.
The Friday-preacher of the Umayyad Mosque was Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini; the agent of the Bayt al-Mal (state treasury) was Jamal al-Din ibn al-Qalansi; the muḥtasib (market inspector) of the city was Fakhr al-Din ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyyah; the nāẓir al-dawāwīn (director of the bureaus) was Shams al-Din Ghabriyal; the mushadd al-dawāwīn (auditor of the bureaus) was ʿAlam al-Din Turaqshi; the inspector of the army was Qutb al-Din ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyyah, assisted by Muʿin al-Din ibn Hushaysh; the kātib al-sirr (chief confidential secretary) was Shihab al-Din Maḥmud; the naqīb al-ashrāf (head of the Prophet’s descendants) was Sharaf al-Din ʿAdnan; the nāẓir of the congregational mosque was Badr al-Din ibn al-Haddad; the supervisor of the khazānah (royal treasury) was ʿIzz al-Din ibn al-Qalansi; the wālī al-barr (governor of the countryside) was ʿAlaʾ al-Din ibn al-Marwani; and the governor of Damascus was Shihab al-Din ibn Barq (3).

On the fifteenth of Rabiʿ al-Awwal, ʿIzz al-Din ibn al-Qalansi assumed the ḥisbah (market inspectorate) in place of Ibn Shaykh al-Salamiyyah while continuing to supervise the treasury.

In that same month Karim al-Din, the Sultan’s agent, was brought from Jerusalem to Egypt. He was arrested; vast sums of money and many valuables were taken from him, and he was then exiled to Upper Egypt, with royal stipends assigned to him and to the family members who accompanied him. Karim al-Din the Younger was likewise pursued, heavily fined, imprisoned, and then released (4).

On Friday, the eleventh of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, the Sultan’s decree was read out in the maqṣūrah (screened enclosure) of the Umayyad Mosque in the presence of the deputy of the sultanate and the judges. It declared the abolition of the grain tax throughout all the protected lands of Syria, whereupon abundant prayers were offered for the Sultan (5).

On Friday, the twenty-fifth of Rabiʿ al-Akhir, an express courier reached the deputy in Syria bearing the decree dismissing the Shafiʿi judge al-Zurʿi. When the latter learned of it, he voluntarily refrained from judging. He remained in the ʿAdiliyya for fifteen days after his dismissal, then moved to the Atabkiyya (6), retaining the office of shaykh al-shuyūkh and the professorship at the Atabkiyya.

The deputy of the Sultan then summoned our shaykh, the ascetic scholar Burhan al-Din al-Fazari, and offered him the judgeship. He refused. The deputy pressed him by every possible means, but he persisted and withdrew. The deputy thereupon sent the notables after him to his madrasa; they entered and tried every stratagem, yet he still declined the appointment and remained resolute—may Allah reward him well for his integrity. When Friday came he