Al-Nuwayri arrives at Tripoli as sahib diwan al-insha', Safar 710/July 1310

Al-Nuwayri reached Tripoli in Safar 710 (July 1310) as sahib diwan al-insha' — head of the correspondence office — replacing the senior official Taj al-Din al-Tawil, mustawfi al-dawla (d. 711); a few months later the same year he was appointed nazir al-jaysh in place of the recently deceased Najm al-Din al-Qasir ¹.

He travelled extensively during his Tripoli years, as in Upper Egypt and Damascus, and the posting marked his work: he describes Qalawun's conquest of the city, retraces its history from the Arab conquest to 688, and lists its nuwwab down to 725 — thereafter noting each year's changes of amirs and functionaries, cadastral revisions, Nusayriyya news and climatic phenomena ¹.