817 AH: Beginning of the year:
List with the most important mansabs of that year. The caliph was al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh Abu l-Fatḥ Dāwud b. al-Mutawakkil ʿAlā Allāh ʾAbī ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad. The sultan was al-Muʾayyad ʾAbu l-Naṣr Shaykh al-Maḥmūdī al-Ẓāhirī. The ʾatābak al-ʿasākir was ʾamir kabīr Yalbughā al-Nāṣirī and the qāḍī al-quḍāt Shaykh al-ʾIslām Jalāl al-Dīn Abu l-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. qāḍī al-quḍāt Shaykh al-ʾIslām Sirāj al-Dīn ʾAbī Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Raslān b. Naṣīr b. Ṣāliḥ al-Bulqīnī al-Shāfiʿī. The Hanafite qāḍī al-quḍāt was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Kamāl al-Dīn ʿUmar b. al-ʿAdīm al-Ḥalabī. The Malikite qāḍī al-quḍāt was Shihāb al-Dīn ʾAḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-ʾUmawī al-Maghribī and the Hanbalite qāḍī al-quḍāt was Majd al-Dīn Sālim b. Sālim b. ʾAḥmad b. Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Malik al-Maqdisī. The kātib al-sirr was Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. al-Bārizī al-Ḥamawī. The wazīr was ṣāḥib Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. al-Hayṣim and the nāẓir al-khāṣṣ was ṣāḥib Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Naṣr Allāh b. Ḥasūn al-Fawwī. The nāẓir al-jaysh was ʿAlam al-Dīn Dāwud b. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Kūyiz al-Karakī and the ʾustādār was amir Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. al-ʾamīr al-wazīr Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʾAbi l-Faraj. The nāʾib of Alexandria was amir al-Mushīr Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥibb al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭarābulusī. The nāʾib of Ghazza was amir Sūdun Qarāṣaqal, and the nāʾib of whole Syria was amir Nawrūz al-Ḥāfaẓī. On his command the name of ʾamīn al-muʾminīn al-Mustaʿīn bi-llāh was invoked in the prayer and coins were minted with his name. This last one was staying in a house in the citadel and was hindered from moving around freely.