State document: T-S Ar.39.470

State document T-S Ar.39.470

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T-S Ar.39.470
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Arabic

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Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used as a prison). The man’s family, including his mother who is disabled or chronically sick (zamina), have stood ransom. Dating: 427–87/1036–94. (Information from Khan and CUDL)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 470; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 470
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T-S Ar.39.470 1r

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. [علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن  [وعلى ابائه]

  2. الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي

  3. الحضرة الطاهرة ما هو عليه من الاعتقال في الخزانة وأن

  4. التاديب قد اخذ منه بحق ويسل الانعام عليه والأحسان

  5. اليه بالصدقة به على من فداه من العيلة والأطفال والوالدة

  6. الزمنة ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه عالى الراى في ذلك ان شا الله

  7. الحمد لله وحده وصلواته الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  1. [... upon our master and lord the imām al-Mus]tanṣir bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful [and upon]
  2. his pure ancestors. The slave of our master, the blessings of God be upon him, reports to
  3. the pure presence that he is enduring detention in the arsenal and that
  4. he has received due punishment. He requests a kindness and benefaction
  5. to be done to him by being charitable, in consideration of this, to his family, his children and his
  6. crippled mother, who have stood ransom for him. To our master, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the exalted opinion regarding that, if God wills.
  7. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family and save them.

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