State document: T-S Ar.40.37

State document T-S Ar.40.37

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T-S Ar.40.37
Primary Language
Arabic

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Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 40, fol. 37; TS Arabic Box 40, f. 37
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In PGP since 2017

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Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of al-Nastarawiyya. Merchants from al-Nastarawiyya who traveled to the neighboring coastal regions to buy goods were being mistreated by government officials and their business was being disrupted; and fishermen from al-Gharbiyya province were fishing illegally along the shores of Lake Burullus within the territory of al-Nastarawiyya, causing financial harm to the ḍamān for fisheries held by ḍāmins from al-Nastarawiyya (and thus to the fisc). (Khan, 1986, p. 441) This version of the decree was copied onto a bifolio in the chancery for storage in its archives; for more on this process and the relationship of compact archival decrees to monumental rotuli, see Rustow, The Lost Archive, 326–34. See also T-S Ar.39.304 (PGPID 20876).

T-S Ar.40.37 1v

1v

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T-S Ar.40.37 1r

1r
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