ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a series of vignettes of al-Ashraf’s life, but does not include his major achievement, which was the conquest of Acre from the Crusaders on May 18, 1291. Even in giving ownership, the Sultan's munificence was glorious in bestowing iqṭā' fiefs. Since generosity was a natural characteristic, this made him generous by nature, as all things follow generosity naturally. The noble written command has gone forth to take possession of protected al-Ṣubayba castle, and that which is with it, according to what is delineated in the noble investiture. A group of Muslims had been taken by the Venetians on the sea, so when this reached our master the Sultan, he arrested a group of Venetians on behalf of those Muslims taken. T-n-q-ū-l-ā and the envoy of the Doge of Venice presented themselves as envoys to the sublime sultanic gates.
