State document: T-S Ar.35.368

State document T-S Ar.35.368

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T-S Ar.35.368
Primary Language
Arabic

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  • 1 Translation

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Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the sender(s) appear. "For the sake of God please look into his condition, for the sake of God!".

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 35, fol. 368; TS Arabic Box 35, f. 368
Input date
In PGP since 2019
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T-S Ar.35.368 recto

recto
Yusuf Umrethwala, unpublished editions (n.p., 2023).

Recto

  1. يقبل الارض وينهي ان المملوك رجل صعلوك
  2. وله عائلة وما هو عادة يرميه ولوجه الله تعالى
  3. النظر في حاله لوجه الله تعالى
  4. المملوك
  5. ابراهيم ابن محسن(؟)
  6. ويوسف العربي
Yusuf Umrethwala, unpublished translations (n.p., 2023).
  1. Kisses the ground and reports that the slave is a pauper
  2. and he has a family, and this [his state of poverty] is not usual, for the sake of God the Almighty
  3. look into his affair, for the sake of God the Almighty
  4. The slave
  5. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥsin (?)
  6. And Yūsuf, the Arab
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.35.368. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20655/, accessed November 30, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20655/