Scholarship on Letter: ENA NS 16.28

Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum's digital edition (2023).

Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum's digital translation (2023).

[ ] mentioned in [ ]
[Go]d the exalted [ ]
[the am]īr our colleagues [........ bes]t of prayers. [al-Shaykh Abū
al-Fa]raj, may God perpetuate his glory, took one night [ago?
my master the elder, and also the letter that my lord wrote to the amīr
Nāṣir al-Dawla, may God god perpetuate his protection. I didn’t give it to my lord
the amīr until I sought peace with our colleagues. He wasn’t able to
. . except the son of the judge, and he is worsening our situation and sowing trouble between us and
our [c]olleagues. When I noticed that they were no[t se]eking peace, I went to
[the amī]r Nāṣir al-Dawla and gave him the [lette]r.
The only thing that [benefi]ted me in all this was the letter of my lord the elder. The amīr extended his benefaction
to me by entering the synagogue … in it.
When the son of the judge saw that the amīr extended his benefaction to us in that (permission to enter the synagogue), he did not …

ENA NS 16.28 recto