In Rabīʿ al-Awwal Shihāb al-Dīn Qarātāy (1) was appointed deputy-governor of Tripoli, while Ṭīnāl (2) was removed from that post and sent to the deputyship of Gaza, and the deputy of Gaza was given Homs. The messenger who brought their letters of investiture received one hundred thousand dirhams from them.

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir the judge Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn Faḍl Allah and his son were reinstated to the secretariat of Egypt, and Sharaf al-Dīn Ibn al-Shihāb Maḥmūd returned to the secretariat of Syria as before.

Mid-month the office of naqīb al-ashrāf was conferred upon ʿImād al-Dīn Mūsā al-Ḥusaynī in place of his brother Sharaf al-Dīn ʿAdnān, who had died the previous month and was buried in their family plot near the Dubbān Mosque (3).

During the same period al-Fakhr al-Miṣrī lectured at the Dawlaʿiyya in succession to Ibn Jumla, by virtue of having assumed the judgeship (4).

On the twenty-fifth of Rajab the judge ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Sharīf, known as Ibn al-Waḥīd (5), delivered the lesson at the Bādirāʾiyya in place of Ibn Jahbal, who had died the month before. The judges and notables attended, while I was then in Jerusalem together with Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī and others.

At this time Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir issued a decree forbidding the use of the pellet-bow (ramy al-bunduq) and banning the sale or manufacture of its bows, on the grounds that the marksmen were corrupting the youth. [The decree added that those who persist in it are generally given to sodomy, debauchery, and irreligion, and the ban was proclaimed throughout the Egyptian and Syrian provinces] (6).

Al-Barzalī said: In mid-Shaʿbān the sultan ordered that the astrologers be handed over to the governor of Cairo; they were beaten and imprisoned for corrupting women, and four of them—three Muslims and one Christian—died under punishment. Shaykh Abū Bakr al-Raḥabī wrote to inform me of this.

At the beginning of Ramadan a courier arrived announcing the appointment of Emir Fakhr al-Dīn [ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad] (7) al-Shams Lūʾluʾ to the governorship of the rural districts of Damascus after the death of Shihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Marwānī.

During Ramadan a letter reached Damascus from Mecca reporting that bolts of lightning had struck the Ḥijāz, killing scattered individuals in various places, together with exceptionally heavy rainfall.