منحة في وثيقة رسميّة: T-S Ar.42.177
وثيقة رسميّة T-S Ar.42.177- الاقتباس المرجعي
- Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
- Location in source
- Doc. 86
- Relation to document
- Digital Edition
- Digital Translation
- الترجمة
- الطبعة
Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.42.177 1r
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ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
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وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائفته
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ما يعينوه به على تغليقها ولما كان الان لحق المملوك مرض فى عينيه فاتلف بصره
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ولم بيق يهتدى على نظر الدنيا ولا التصرف وهلك هو وعايلته جوعا
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وجباة الجزية بمصر ملازميه بالطلب وقد اضر ذلك بحال المملوك وادي الي
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تسجينه وهلاكه وعايلته جوعا وانقطاعا خوفا من مطالبة بما لا تصل يده
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اليه وحاشي عدل هذه الايام الزاهرة من ان يكون مكفوف البصر صفر
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اليدين يلتمس به القيام بالجزية مع استهانته بها بين الطالبين والمملوك
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يجدد تقبيل الارض ويسل ويضرع فى خروج التوقيع العالى زاده الله نفاذا
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He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
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At most times it is difficult for him to pay the full amount until Jews of his sect charitably
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help him to do so. Recently the slave was afflicted with a disease in his eyes and he lost his sight.
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He has no longer been able to look after his wordly affairs nor conduct his profession. He and his family are dying of hunger,
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but the collectors of the poll tax in Fusṭāṭ are pressing him for payment. This has caused suffering to the slave and led to
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his imprisonment and the wasting away of himself and of his family through hunger and isolation, through fear of being demanded to pay what he cannot
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afford. Far be it from these glorious days that an impecunious, blind man
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should be required to pay the poll tax and be treated with contempt by the tax-collectors. The slave
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kisses the ground again and, humbly asks for the issuing of an exalted rescript, may God increase its efficacy, ...