816 AH, Beginning of the year: List with the most important mansabs of that year. Summary of the position of amir Nawrūz.
The sultan of Egypt and the two Holy Places was al-Muʾayyad Abū al-Naṣir Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī. The caliph was al-Mustaʿīn bi-llāh, who couldn’t move freely and was supervised. The ʾatābak al-ʿasākir was amir Yalbughā al-Nāṣirī and the dawādār amir Ṭūghrān al-Ḥasanī. The ʾamīr ʾākhūr was Qanibāy al-Muḥammadī and the kātib al-sirr Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Bārizī al-Ḥamawī. The quḍāt al-quḍāt were the same as the past year, except for the Hanafite qāḍī al-quḍāt, who was qaḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAlī b. al-ʾĀdamī al-Dimashqī. Amongst the mubāshirūn, the ʾustādār changed and was amir Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Ṭarabulusī. The ḥājib al-ḥujjāb was amir ʾĪnāl al-Ṣaṣlānī and the wālī of Cairo was amir Tāj al-Dīn b. Sayfā al-Shawīkī. The nāʾib of Alexandria was amir Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl al-Jashārī and the nāʾib of Ghazza was amir Altunbughā al-ʿUthmānī. The nāʾib of whole Syria was amir Nawrūz al-Ḥāfaẓī and on his command the name of al-Mustaʿīn bi-llāh was invoked on all the minbars and coins were minted with his name on them. He had not taken Aleppo, which was in the hands of the sultan and the naʾib there was Damurdāsh al-Muḥammadī.