Fire. Oil. Straw. These three inexpensive things were what 'Ayn al-Qudt wanted for his death sentence to be carried outperhaps as a kind of simple delivery to the world of martyrs. It seems he did not want to leave the world with any fanfare of glory. The death of a Sufi, even when murdered, was a simple dispersal to the bosom of God.

But Sultan Mahmud bin Muhammad Tapar and his vizier al-Dargazini's executioners did not want to show any kind of l