At [thorn]e end of 1304 he was called to Paris to incept as D.
Damascus) "I swear by the sky with its towers," the inceptof Koran chapt.
When they presented themselves to him, he honoured them with all honour and entertained them with handsomest entertainment, and Azadbakht told him his tale from incept to conclusion.
When he alighted from his beast they accosted him and enquired the cause of his change from poverty to prosperity, and he told them all that had happened to him from incept to conclusion.
When all this had been done they questioned the Sultan concerning the cause of that event and he informed them of what had befallen him from incept to conclusion and lastly he cried, "Walláhi!
So the Shaykh recounted to him the whole history as hath before been set forth from incept to conclusion, nor hid from him aught thereof.
The right of granting dispensations, however, or graces to incept in Theology, to those who had not ruled in Arts, was reserved to the Chancellor and Masters.
