Scholarship on State document: ENA 3974.3
State document ENA 3974.3- Bibliographic citation
- Marina Rustow, "The Fatimid Petition,"Jewish History 32 (n.p.: Springer Nature, 2019), 351-372.
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Editor: Rustow, Marina
Translator: Rustow, Marina (in English)
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Marina Rustow, "The Fatimid Petition," Jewish History 32 (n.p.: Springer Nature, 2019), 351-372.
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- عبدها يحيى بن الحسن من ناحية < >
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- اعلم مولاتنا السيدة خلد الله ملكَها وثبت عزها ببقا مولانا وسيدنا
- الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه
- الطاهرين[vacat] اني تحت ضر وفاقة من قلة القوت وعلف الحمار واني
- احتاج في كل يوم خبز وعلف للدابة بثلثين درهما كل ليلة فلما
- طال عليّ ذلك حملت ولدي على العـون ودفعت له ماية دينار
- وانفذته الى مدينة الفيوم يشتري بها قمح او شعير ناكله
- فجااني الخبر بانه قد ابتاع بها سبعين تليس قمح ونسبها
- لمولاي الامير ابي محمد الـحسن بن ثقة الدولة ادام الله عزه وانا
- اسل مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها وثبت عزها التوجيه للقائد
- خصي باخذ توقيع منه باطلاقها ساعة وصولها للجيزة
- فان تاخر ذلك عني ذهب تعبـ{ـة} عبدها ولدي ورجعت الى
- عيلة مولاتنا فان عندنا ⟦ما⟧ من العيال ما لو ابصرتهم
- لرحمتهم ولولا اظاقة البأس لما تثقلت على مولاتنا
- في شي وان كان لا يثقل علىّ كرمها شي لانها موصـوفة
- بالكرم والاحسان الجـزيل والمعروف الـبين
- ولمولاتنا الكريمة عالي الراي في اجابة عبدها فيما سال
- [الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وسلم تسـ]ـلـ[ـيمـ]ـا
Marina Rustow, "The Fatimid Petition," Jewish History 32 (n.p.: Springer Nature, 2019), 351-372.
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- Her slave Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan from the district of <scribe has omitted place name>:
- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- I inform our mistress, the lady—may God make her dominion eternal and strengthen her loftiness in the permanence of our master and lord
- the imam al-Ẓāhir li-iʿzāz dīn Allāh, Commander of the Faithful, the prayers of God be upon him and his pure
- fathers—that I am in distress and need due to shortage of food and fodder for the donkey, and that
- each day I require bread and fodder for my riding animal in the amount of thirty dirhams per night. And when
- I had endured this (shortage) for (too) long, I convinced my son to help.
- I gave him one hundred dīnārs and sent him to Madīnat al-Fayyūm to buy wheat or barley there for us to eat.
- Then the news reached me that he had bought with them (the hundred dīnārs) seventy sacks of wheat and given them over
- to my lord the amīr Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Thiqat al-Dawla, may God prolong his power. I
- am asking our lady—may God make her dominion eternal and strengthen her power—to send a eunuch
- to the district governor to take a decree from him releasing them (the sacks of wheat) as soon as they reach Giza.
- If he holds it up from me (the permission to release the sacks of wheat), the toil of her servant my son will be in vain, and I will return to
- the support of our lady, since our household has so many dependents that were she to see them,
- she would have compassion toward them (and relieve their suffering). Were it not for the oppression of misery, I would not have imposed upon our lady
- in any way, even though her magnanimity does not weigh heavily on me at all, since she is characterized
- by magnanimity and abundant benefaction and manifest kindness.
- And to our gracious mistress belongs the lofty resolution in answering her servant in what he has requested.
- [Praise be to God, the only, and his prayers and pe]a[c]e [upon our lord Muḥ ammad.]
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