Unknown type: ENA NS 35.14

Unknown type ENA NS 35.14

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Shelfmark
ENA NS 35.14
Primary Language
Arabic

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Description

Unidentified text in Arabic script. The layout looks literary and it is partially rhymed. Mentions the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38) twice (r6, r22); a ṣāḥib al-dīwān (v4–5); 1000 gold dinars (v10); Ḥusām al-Dīn and Amīn al-Dīn (v13–14); Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān who has someone's agent whipped (v16–17); Ṣadīq b. Shākir (v21). Seems to primarily deal with Mecca (r5, r18, r25, v6–7, v15), including multiple allusions to unjust and/or irreligious rulers. May also mention the city of Medina (r18) in a section where it seems that both Medina and Mecca are personified (r18: فلما سمعت المدينة المحروسة, r24–25: فلما سمعت مكة). This section is only one part of the larger text, but it might be a trope from the genre of Rangstreit (literary debate). There is a later Rangstreit between Mecca and Medina in BNF MS Arabe 1667, 190v-200v, in which the dispute is mediated by Sayf al-Dīn Yalbughā (d. 1366). Merits further examination.

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 35, f. 14; ENA NS 35, fol. 14
Input date
In PGP since 2019
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  • ENA NS 35.14: Images provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (JTSL) CC-Zero / Public Domain
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 35.14. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30060/ (accessed June 7, 2026).