Sirghitmish

[2] In March/April 1352, in a spiritual bid to recover from an illness, which had lasted for a few days, Sirghitmish donated large alms to the impoverished and freed a certain number of prisoners.

Sirghitmish and Emir Shaykhu had led the coup against Sultan as-Salih Salih and the strongman Taz an-Nasiri and restored an-Nasir Hasan to the throne.

[4] Sirghitmish and Shaykhu were the major figures in an-Nasir Hasan's court and held the reins of power.

[4] That year he purchased the town of Amman in Transjordan and assigned it as the district capital of Balqa, part of the province of Damascus.

[4] One of Sirghitmish's sons, Ibrahim, would later become an emir of ten, i.e. a low-ranking Mamluk officer in 1363, during the reign of Sultan al-Mansur Muhammad.

[2] A feature of Sirghitmish's madrasa unique to similar institutions in Cairo was that a dome was built atop the central portion of the qibla iwan.