Baybars’ Successors: Ibn al-Furāt on Qalāwūn and al-Ashraf

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	Mention of the sultanate of al-Malik al-Sa`īd, son of
al-Malik al-Ẓāhir [=Baybars], and his ruling independently
in the Egyptian homelands, while he was the fifth of the
Turkish kings in the Egyptian homelands
	Mention some of the reports about the emir
Badr al-Dīn al-khāzindār
	Mention of the emir Sayf al-Dīn Kūndak being appointed
as deputy sultan in the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of the changing opinions of the emirs against al-Malik al-Sa`id, and their opposition to him
	Mention of the building of a college and a mausoleum in
protected Damascus for al-Malik al-Ẓāhir’s burial
	Mention of the killing of the pervane, the administrator of
[Seljuq] Rūm’s army
	Mention of events of 677 [1278–9]
	Mention of al-Malik al-Sa`id’s going to Syria
	Mention of preparing the armies for the land of Sīs
	Mention of events of 678 [1279–80]
	Mention of the raid by the armies against Sīs and the dissension
that occurred between the Khāṣakiyya and the Ṣāliḥiyya emirs,
and the return of the armies from Sīs, their being forbidden to
enter Damascus, and their going to the Egyptian homelands
	Al-Malik al-Sa`id’s going to the Egyptian homelands, his removal, and his being given Kerak as a realm
	Mention of the sultanate of al-Malik al-`Ādil Salāmish son of
al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Ṣāliḥī, who was the
sixth of the Turkish kings in the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of the removal of al-Malik al-`Ādil Badr al-Dīn
Salāmish from the sultanate and his going to Kerak
	Mention of Ḥusām al-Dīn Țurunṭāy’s appointment as deputy
sultan over the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of al-Malik al-Sa`īd son of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, ruler of
Kerak, taking over al-Shawbak, and then its return to al-Malik
al-Manṣūr, ruler of Egypt
	Mention of al-Malik al-Mas`ūd son of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir’s
staying after the death of his brother al-Malik al-Sa`īd in Kerak,
and what was agreed from him
	Mention of the sultanate of Shams al-Dīn Sunqur
al - ashqar in Damascus
	Mention of the events during the year 679 [1280]
	Mention of the Egyptian and Syrian armies’ meeting in battle, those emirs taken prisoner, during the first time
	Mention of the dispatch of the Egyptian armies to Damascus and
al-Malik al-Kāmil, ruler of Damascus, waging war against them, his
defeat at Damascus and the entrance of the Egyptian army into it
	Mention of Shams al-Dīn Sunqur al-ashqar’s heading towards
Ṣahyūn, and his fortifying it
	Mention of the delegation of the deputy sultanate in Damascus
to the emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn “the Lesser” al-Manṣūrī, the
Chancelleries Supervisor to the emir Badr al-Dīn Baktūt al-`Alā’ī,
and the ministry to the chief Taqī al-Dīn Tawba al-Tikrītī
	Mention of the delegation of emirate upon the Āl Faḍl, and Āl
`Alī, to Fakhr al-Dīn, Shams al-Dīn and Ḥusām al-Dīn
	Mention of the Tatars’ advance towards Syria and their entering
into Aleppo, what they did there, and their return from it
	Mention of the delegation of heir-apparency from al-Malik
al-Manṣūr to his son al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ
	Mention of al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s heading towards Syria to
meet the Tatars [in battle], his arrival in Gaza, and his return
to the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of the Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr heading
towards Syria
	Mention of the events during the year 680 [1281]
	Mention of the truces confirmed with the Franks
	Mention of the conspiracy of the emir Kūndak and a number
of emirs to kill al-Malik al-Manṣūr, his learning of this,
and detaining them
	Mention of the Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s entering Damascus
	Mention of the peace arrangement between al-Malik al-Manṣūr
and Shams al-Dīn Sunqur al-ashqar, and what was settled between
the two of them
	[?] the blessed [Nile] level stood at six cubits and 18 fingers.
Mention of the peace arrangement between al-Malik al-Manṣūr
and al-Malik al-Mas`ūd son of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, ruler of Kerak,
and what was established between the two of them
	Mention of the Tatars’ returning to Syria, the battle which
occurred between them and the Islamic armies at Ḥimṣ,
and the Tatars’ defeat
	Mention of al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s going to Damascus, and his return
to the Egyptian homelands, and his safe arrival in his Citadel
	Mention of the kingship of Aḥmad Aghā son of Hűlegű over
the Tatars after the death of his brother Abagha son of Hűlegű,
king of the Tatars
	Mention of the events during the year 681 [1282]
	Mention of swearing the noble ruler of ennobled Mecca
	Mention of the King of the Tatars’ envoys’ arrival at the noble gates of the Hill Citadel in protected Egypt
	Mention of the events during the year 682 [1283]
	Mention of the conquest of Qaṭīnā castle
	Mention of the conquest of the border fortress of al-Kakhtā
	Mention of the Sultan’s going from Egypt to Syria
	Mention of the raiding on the Sīs lands
	Mention of the construction of the Manṣūriyya College bayn
al-qaṣrayn inside protected Cairo, together with its mausoleum,
hospital and Qur’ān school
	Mention of some reports concerning Shaykh `Abd al-Raḥmān, his
arrival, and those Tatar envoys with him to protected Damascus
	Mention of the events during the year 683 [1284]
	Mention of what was agreed upon between Arghun son of Abagha
son of Hűlegű and his paternal uncle Aḥmad Aghā Sultan, and his
killing [the latter] and taking over as king of the Tatars
	al-Malik al-Man.ur heads to Damascus
	Mention of the disastrous flood in protected Damascus
	Mention of the Sultan’s return to the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of the ascension to kingship of the king of Ḥamāh
after the death of his father al-Malik al-Manṣūr
	Mention of Muhannā’s emirate over the Bedouin after the
death of his father, the emir `Īsā
	Mention of the quick construction of the Manṣūriyya College, its
mausoleum, Hospital and Qur’ān school
	Mention of the Sultan’s going from Egypt to Syria
	Mention of the events during the year 684 [1285]
	Mention of the conquest of Marqab fortress
	Mention of events during the year 685 [1286]
	Mention of the emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Țurunṭāy’s traveling to Kerak,
his taking over it, and the traveling of its ruler, al-Malik al-Mas`ūd
and his brother Salāmish to Egypt and their dwelling it in
	Mention of a strange occurrence that happened in Ḥimṣ
during this year
	Mention of al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s heading to Kerak, and the
arrangements he made there
	Mention of the events during the year 686 [1287]
	Mention of the emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Țurunṭāy’s going from Egypt, his
taking Ṣahyūn, and Sunqur al-ashqar’s return to obedience
	Mention of al-Malik al-Manṣūr heading to Syria
	Mention of the first raid into Nubia
	Mention of the events during the year 687 [1288]
	Removal of the minister `Alam al-Dīn al-Shujā`ī and the
confiscation of his property
	Mention of al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s delegating the heir-apparency
to his son al-Malik al-Ashraf
	Mention of the events during the year 688 [1289]
	Mention of the dispatch of the army to Nubia a second time
	In the year 689 [1290]
	Mention of what was decided for the Egyptian army in Nubia,
and the rule of Dā’ūd’s nephew over the realm of Nubia, and what
was agreed for him after the return of the Egyptian army
	Mention of some reports of al-Malik al-Manṣūr and his death
	Mention of the sultanate of al-Malik al-Ashraf Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl
son of al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dīn Qalāwūn son of `Abdallāh
al-Ḥurr al-Alfī al-Ṣāliḥī al-Najmī in the Egyptian homelands and the
Islamic realms that were attached to it
	Mention of Ḥusām al-Dīn Țurunṭāy’s detention, and his execution,
as well as Zayn al-Dīn Kitbughā and his imprisonment
	Mention of the delegation of the deputy sultanate in the Egyptian
homelands to the emir Badr al-Dīn Baydarā al-Manṣūrī
	Mention of the events of the year 690 [1291]
	Mention of some reports of Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Sal`ūs, the
ministership being entrusted to him, and his haughtiness over
the emirs and others
	Mention of al-Malik al-Ashraf’s going to Syria, conquest of
Acre and other Frankish places, and the poems about that
	Mention of his detaining the governor of Damascus, the Sultan’s return
and entrance to it, and the removal from office and governorships he
decided there, and his return to the Egyptian homelands
	Mention of the conquest of Beirut
	Mention of the emir Baysarā’s release and his connection to al-Ashraf
	Mention of the events of the year 691 [1292]
	Mention of al-Malik al-Ashraf heading to Syria
	Conquest of the Qal`at al-Rūm castle, and its being
renamed Qal`at al-Muslimīn
	Mention of the killing of a number of emirs, and the release
of the emir Ḥusām al-Dīn Lājīn, deputy of Damascus
	Mention of the events of the year 692 [1293–4]
	Mention of al-Malik al-Ashraf’s heading towards Upper Egypt,
and his safe return to his Citadel
	Mention of al-Malik al-Ashraf heading towards Syria
	Mention of the conquest of Bahsanā, Mar`ash and Tell Ḥamdūn,
and taking them from the Armenians, and adding them to the
Islamic realms
	Mention of the events of the year 693 [1293–4]
	Mention of some of al-Malik al-Ashraf son of al-Malik al-Manṣūr’s
news, his conduct, and his going to al-Buḥayra to hunt and his murder
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