Then the year 767 AH commenced.

It opened while the sovereign of the lands of Egypt, Syria, the Two Holy Sanctuaries, and the provinces attached to them was al-Malik al-Ashraf, son of al-Ḥusayn, son of al-Malik al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn, who was a little over ten years of age. The commander of the armies and administrator of his domains was Emir Sayf al-Din Yalbugha al-Khāṣṣakī.

The Chief Judge for the Shāfiʿī school in Egypt was Bahāʾ al-Din Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Subkī, while the remaining judges were the same as those mentioned in the previous year.

The deputy-governor of Damascus was Emir Sayf al-Din Manqilī Bughā. The judges of Damascus likewise remained as before, except for the Ḥanafī post, which had passed to Shaykh Jamāl al-Din ibn al-Sarrāj, head of the Ḥanafīs. The office of preacher (khiṭāba) was held by the Chief Judge Tāj al-Din al-Shāfiʿī. Keeper of the royal seal and shaykh of the shaykhs was Qāḍī Fath al-Din ibn al-Shahīd, and the administrator of the public treasury was Shaykh Jamāl al-Din ibn al-Ruhāwī.

The royal maḥmal entered the city on Friday after the ʿAṣr prayer, close to sunset, but most of the townspeople were unaware of it because the deputy-governor was away on a foray toward the Euphrates sector—undertaken as a riposte to the expedition that had been assigned to demolish al-Kabīsāt, the fief of Ḥayyār ibn Mahennā since the days of Sultan Uways, king of Iraq.

The seizure of Alexandria by the Franks—may Allah curse them (1):

In the last ten days of Muḥarram, the Franks in Damascus were rounded up and committed to the prisons of the victorious Citadel. It was widely reported that this was because the city of Alexandria was besieged by several galleys, and it was said that the ruler of Cyprus was among them. The Egyptian army moved out to defend Alexandria—may Allah guard, preserve, and protect it. Details will be given next month, when the matter became clear to us. According to what reached us, after remaining at Alexandria for a few days, the city was then besieged by a Tatar emir named Mamay (2). He sought the aid of a contingent of Franks, stormed the city by force, slew a great many of its inhabitants, seized abundant spoils, and the city settled under Mamay’s hand as his kingdom.

On Friday, the last day of this month, Shaykh Burhān al-Din Ibrāhīm (3), son of Shaykh Shams al-Din Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, died in his orchard at al-Mizzah and was conveyed to