State document: T-S Ar.39.391

State document T-S Ar.39.391

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T-S Ar.39.391
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).
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Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) The dating is based on the identification of the vizier in question with Abū l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās Ibn Abī l-Futūḥ.

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

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  1. الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]

  2. لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين] 

  3. وادام قد[رته] واعلا كلمته المملوك يقبل الارض ويسل

  4. فى اجرائه [عـ]ـلى مسامحته فى الغلة المطلـ[ـقة] له في كل سنة انعاما عليه 

  5. واحسانا اليه 

  6. وللمجلس العالى فضل السمو و[القدرة فى] ذلك 

  7. حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وسلم 

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