to depose al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Nāṣir—whose mother was the daughter of Tankiz—and to restore his brother al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan. On that very day al-Ṣāliḥ was confined to his house under strict guard and handed over to his mother, Khunda, daughter of Emir Sayf al-Din Tankiz, the viceroy of Syria. They then sent for Tāz (1), arrested his brother Jantamur (2), and also seized the Sultan’s uterine brother, ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Baktamur al-Sāqī. A great upheaval broke out in Egypt, yet the courier bringing news of the new oath of allegiance did not reach Syria until Thursday, the thirteenth of this month. He arrived with Emir ʿIzz al-Din Aydamir al-Shamsi; the deputy thereupon swore allegiance after being robed in a splendid mantle of honor, while the emirs assembled in the Dār al-Saʿāda as usual. Drums of glad tidings were beaten, the city was adorned, and on Friday the preacher proclaimed the Sultan’s name from the pulpit in the presence of the deputy of the Sultanate, the judges, and the state officials.

On the morning of Monday, the nineteenth of Shawwal, Emir Sayf al-Din Manjak entered Damascus to assume the deputyship of Tripoli. He lodged in the Ablak Palace with Emir ʿIzz al-Din Aydamir, stayed for several days, and then set out for his province (3).

On the morning of Thursday, the twenty-sixth of the same month, Emir Sayf al-Din Tāz arrived from Egypt with a company of his followers, passing through on his way to the deputyship of protected Aleppo. The deputy of the Sultanate met him near the Karim al-Din Mosque in al-Qubaybāt and accompanied him as far as Bāb al-Farādis. Tāz then went on to the lowland of Barza, spent the night there, and at dawn resumed his journey. He had once been the peer of Emir Shaykhūn, but Shaykhūn outmatched him and sent him off to Aleppo. Nevertheless, Tāz remained beloved by the commoners for his well-known and praiseworthy efforts in major affairs, as mentioned earlier.

[Then the year 756 AH began]

The year opened with the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims being Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ḥasan ibn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn al-Malik al-Manṣūr Qalawun al-Ṣāliḥi. In Egypt there was neither a viceroy nor a vizier, and the judges were the same as those cited in the preceding year.

The deputy of Damascus was Emir ʿAlī al-Mārdānī, and the judges, the chamberlain, the preacher, and the chancellor of the secretariat were likewise unchanged from the previous year.

The deputy of Aleppo was Emir Sayf al-Din Tāz; the deputy of Tripoli, Manjak; and the deputy of Ḥamā, Asandamur al-ʿUmari (4).