He rebuked them for this, forbade them to issue any further fatwās, and even composed a treatise on the question, prohibiting the practice, which he entitled al-Dasāʾis fī al-Kanāʾis (Subterfuges concerning Churches).(1)

On the fifth day of Ramaḍān, Emir Dulgādar(2) the Turkmen—who had supported Baybughā in the previous year’s disgraceful actions—was brought in under tight guard. He appeared before the deputy and, that same day, was committed to the Manṣūra Citadel.

[Then the year 755 AH began.]

At the opening of this year the ruler of Egypt, greater Syria and their dependencies, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, the Ḥijāz and adjacent regions was al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, son of al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn al-Ṣāliḥī. Through his mother he was the grandson of Tankiz, the former viceroy of Syria, and he had served under the Naṣirid administration.

His deputy in Egypt was Emir Sayf al-Dīn Qablāy al-Naṣirī; his vizier was Judge Muwafaq al-Dīn. The judges of Egypt were the same as those listed the previous year, among them the Chief Judge ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿa al-Shāfiʿī, who this year took up residence in the Noble Ḥijāz, with Judge Tāj al-Dīn al-Munāwī acting in his stead. The chancellor (kātib al-sirr) was Judge ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿAdawī, while the affairs of state were overseen by three amirs: Sayf al-Dīn Shaykhūn, Sarghitmush al-Naṣirī, and the grand dawādār ʿIzz al-Dīn Ṭuqtāy al-Naṣirī.

The year began with Emir Sayf al-Dīn Shaykhūn already in detention for about a month.

In Damascus the viceroy was Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī al-Mārdānī; its judges were those mentioned previously. The supervisor of the dīwāns was al-Ṣāḥib Shams al-Dīn Mūsā ibn al-Tāj Abī Isḥāq,(3) the chancellor was Judge Naṣir al-Dīn ibn al-Sharaf Yaʿqūb, the city’s preacher was Jamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Jumla, and the market inspector was Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Anṣārī—a relative of Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn ibn(4) the Imām of the Shrine—who also lectured at the Aminiyya Madrasa(5) in his place.

In Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, Emir ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Mughlatāy, who had been imprisoned in Alexandria and subsequently released—he had once held supreme power—arrived. He was ordered to proceed to Syria and remain with Aytamush(6), the viceroy of Tripoli; as for Manjak