State document: T-S Ar.41.131
State document T-S Ar.41.131Tags
Description
Petition to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār, regarding a fief worth 5500 dinars and a market worth 1000 faddān that were repossessed by the judge operating in Minyat Ghamr, who did not return them even after the issue of a decree by the vizier. The petition indicates that some of the grounds in discussion are cultivated with sugar cane. Dating: 544–48/1149–53. On verso and between the lines of the petition on recto there are piyyuṭim including a seliḥa and a reshut. (Information from Khan and CUDL.) Reused by the same Hebrew scribe as Moss. IV,249 (PGPID 38238). ASE
Edition: Khan, Geoffrey
Translation: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.41.131 1r
Transcription
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).Recto
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صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
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ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
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وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعادة سوق لاقطاعهم عوضا من سوقهم
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فلم يجيبهم النايب بمنية غمر الى ذلك ولا رد عليهم الطين و عبرة مال
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اقطاعهم خمس الالف دينار وخمس ماية دينار وعبرة طين الناحية الف فدان
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وهم يسلون فى خروج الامر العالى زاده الله نفاذا باقمة سوق لاقطاعهم
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يوم فى الجمعة عوضا من سوقهم واعادة الطين الم(ذ)كور اليهم
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او تعويضهم اقطاعا غيره من الاقطاعات الجارية فى الديوان العادلى السعيد
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بحكم ان هذه الناحيتين تصلح اضافة الى صقعة منية غمر لزراعة الاقصاب
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والعمارة للمسئول به
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انعاما عليهم واحسانا اليهم
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وللارا العالية الفضل و السمو والقدرة ان شا الله
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الحمد الله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وسلم
Translation
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).- The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings [and peace]
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... what was assigned to them as the land of their fief, to wit one hundred faddāns, which the local judge took possession of.
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The exalted orders were issued for the restoration of a market to their fief in place of their (present) market,
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but the local judge in Minyat Ghamr did not allow them this and he did not return the land to them. The assessment of the wealth
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of their fief is five-thousand, five-hundred dinars and the assessment of the land of the village is one thousand faddāns.
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They request the issuing of an exalted ordinance, may God increase its efficacy, to establish a market for their fief
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one day a week in place of their (present) market and the return of the aforementioned land to them,
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or their compensation with another fief that is registered in the auspicious office of al-ʿAdil,
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on the grounds that these two villages are suitable to be annexed to the district of Minyat Ghamr, on account of the cultivation of sugar cane
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and the tilling of (the land) that is the subject of this petition,
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as a kindness and benefaction to them.
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To the exalted resolutions belongs eminence, sublimity and power, if God wills.
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Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad and save him.
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