State document: ENA 4101.14a

State document ENA 4101.14a

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Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: amām al-maqām al-nabawī al-ṭāhirī al-muʿaẓẓam al-sharīf. The actual addressee seems to be a vizier whose titles follow after wa bi-l majlis al-sāmī; al-Sayyīdī al-Ajallī al-ʿĀlī al-Jūyūshī al-Sayfī al-Nāṣirī al-Kāmilī. Probably dates from the late Fatimid period. The petition also has a marāḥim formula "ilā l-marāḥim al-ʿamīma wa l-faḍāʾl al-karīma" (For details on this formula see: Khan, ALAD, pg.396). Further investigation is required to determine the identities of the caliph and addressee in question. On verso there is a single line with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala in Arabic script (perhaps originally from the bottom of the petition? Or from another document that has gotten glued on here.) And there is a cryptic text in Judaeo-Arabic with diagrams of dots and sticks, maybe some kind of technical/magical instructions.

ENA 4101.14a recto

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Yusuf Umrethwala, Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow, unpublished editions‎ (in Arabic) (n.p., 2022).
  1. المملوك يقبل الارض اما 

  2. ….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف

  3. ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟)   وبالمجلس السامي

  4. السيدي الاجلي العالي الجيوشي السيفي الناصري الـكاملي؟ الهادي

  5. عضد ايضا به وامتع بطول بقائه امير المومنين وادام قدرته(؟) واعلى

  6. . . . . . . . . . . .وينهي] الى المراحم العميمة والعواطف

  7. [الكريمة . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

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