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Moreover, two tax officials — a fellow tax-farmer in the dār al-ṣināʿa, the main customs point entering Fustat (see Med. Soc. .2:360, 606n34) and the tax-collector (mushidd, an Ayyubid term for the tax-collector at ports, on which Friedman cites Cahen, ’Le régime des impôts dans le Fayyūm ayyūbide,’ Arabica 3 [1956], 19), meaning the one working at the dār al-ṣināʿa? […]
Unclear whether here we have the striking picture of a tax-farmer deeming it an injustice that his superiors forbid him from taking bribes; he uses the Hebrew word ḥamas, which in this period, according to Friedman, is a technical term for government-imposed injustice, so perhaps this is by comparison to some earlier period, when it was understood that tax-collectors could enrich themselves in kind.
Mentions the death of Abū Naṣr b. al-Minqār, who was Ibn Yijū’s cousin, the son of his maternal aunt.
Recto
- כתבת הדה אלאחרף אלי מולאי ואכי ומן
- געלת פדאה עלי עגלה מן אלרסול
- גואב כתאבה אלכרים אלואצל עלי יד
- אבו סעד ולד אלשיך אבו עלי אבן אלכרניב
- אללה יעל…
recto
- כתבתי את המילים הללו אל אדוני אחי ומי
- שאיעשה כפרתו, בחיפזון בגלל השליח
- – בתשובה למכתבו היקר שהגיע על ידי
- אבו סעד בן השיך אבו עלי אבן אלכרניב.
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