Scholarship on State document: T-S Ar.7.38
State document T-S Ar.7.38- Bibliographic citation
- Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
- Location in source
- Doc. 70
- Relation to document
- Digital Edition
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.7.38 1v
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[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
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ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
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وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
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يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحصل له من اجرتها شي كبير
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ولما خرجت الامر العالية والسجلات المعظمة
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برد سائر الكنائس الى اربابها تعزرعليهم
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بالحكم ومنعهم منها بيد القدرة وبقيت بيده
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الى هذه الغاية على الحال التي شرحها العبد
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وعبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه يرغب الى خروج
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التوقيع العالي الى ديوان الإقطاعات المرتجعة
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بجعل المبلغ المذكور على العبد لاربع سنين
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أولهن سنة احدى وعشرين واربع مائة الخراجية
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باربعة وعشرين دينارا حساب ستة دنانير في كل [سنة]
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او إعادتها الى نصارى الناحية ولمولانا
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صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي فيما سال فيه العبد
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انجز الله لمولانا وعده وخلد ملكه ونصر جنده وصلى
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على محمد النبي جده وسلم تسليما
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All the silver, copper, wooden vessels
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and marble that are in it. All of this amounts to a large quantity. He broke them down
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and with their proceeds built an enclosure designed to contain a press and shops.
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He is enjoying income from them and in addition to all this he is receiving large sums from their rent.
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When the exalted command and mighty documents were issued (enjoining)
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the return of the remaining churches to their owners, constraining them
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by law and disallowing them (to have any claims on) them by the hand of authority, (he did not heed the decree) and it has remained in his possession
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until now, as the slave has explained.
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The slave of our master, the benedictions of God be upon him, would like
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an exalted rescript to be issued to the office of the reclaimed fiefs,
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(instructing) the aforementioned sum to be paid to the slave within four years,
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the first (instalment) being (paid in) the kharājī year four-hundred and twenty-one,
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amounting to twenty-four dinārs, at a rate of six dinārs in every [year]
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or its return to the Christians of the district. To our master,
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the benedictions of God be upon him, belongs the exalted resolution regarding what the slave has requested.
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May God fulfil his promise for our master, may he cause his reign to be eternaland his army to be victorious. May he praise
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Muḥammad the prophet, his ancestor, and save him.