State document: T-S Ar.42.177

State document T-S Ar.42.177

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T-S Ar.42.177
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).
Primary Language
Arabic

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State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars and a dirham), since lost his sight as a consequence of an eye illness and is now unable to perform his job, while the tax collectors are increasingly pressing. The writer also states that in the past he had been able to pay his capitation tax only thanks to the charitable intervention of the community. Dating: 12th century. On verso there is Hebrew text, possibly liturgical. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم

  2. وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائفته

  3. ما يعينوه به على تغليقها ولما كان الان لحق المملوك مرض فى عينيه فاتلف بصره 

  4. ولم بيق يهتدى على نظر الدنيا ولا التصرف وهلك هو وعايلته جوعا 

  5. وجباة الجزية بمصر ملازميه بالطلب وقد اضر ذلك بحال المملوك وادي الي

  6. تسجينه وهلاكه وعايلته جوعا وانقطاعا خوفا من مطالبة بما لا تصل يده

  7. اليه وحاشي عدل هذه الايام الزاهرة من ان يكون مكفوف البصر صفر

  8. اليدين يلتمس به القيام بالجزية مع استهانته بها بين الطالبين والمملوك

  9. يجدد تقبيل الارض ويسل ويضرع فى خروج التوقيع العالى زاده الله نفاذا

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