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Letter T-S Ar.39.435
  1. Bibliographic citation
    Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).
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T-S Ar.39.435 1r

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Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto, main text

  1. [     ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine

  2. [     ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñra, fī-mā baʿdehu

  3. Benim peder-i ʿazīzim, bu defʿa Reʾīs ʿAbdullāh Enṣārī

    Saʿīdī ile ikiyüz

  4. yetmiş beş ḳanṭār odun irsāl olunmuşdur. Vuṣūlünde aḫz

    idesiz.

  5. Benim peder-i ʿazīzim, bu minvāl üzere

  6. aḫz idüb ve defterinize ḳayd

  7. idüb, dervīşīn-i Mevlevīyīn

  8. ol ṭarafda seferü’l-reʾīs üzere

  9. ...

Recto, bottom, middle of the page

  1. ʿAbdullāh Enṣārī Saʿīdī
  2. Fī                odun
  3. ٢٧               ḳanṭār
  4.                     ٢٧٥ [    ]
  5.                      [٧٤٢٥]
  6. [navlū]n [baḥ]rī

Recto, right margin, upside-down

  1. Ve benim peder-i ʿazīzim [    ]

  2. ‘şeyleri in şāʾ Allāh teʿālā [    ]

  3. īrsāl ideriz ḫaṭırımızda’ dīr [?] ve ol [ṭarafda]

  4. Seydī Muḥammed’e ve Seydī ʿÖmer’e selām[lar].

Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto, main text

  1. [    ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,

  2. [    ] ...after offering greetings and sincere prayers, now then:

  3. My dear father, this time, 275 qinṭārs of firewood were sent with the navigator ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī Saʿīdī.

  4. When they arrive, take possession of them.

  5. My dear father, in this manner

  6. take possession of them and record them in your register,

  7. and the Mevlevī dervishes

  8. on the occasion of the navigator’s sojourn there [lit., ‘on that side’]

  9. ...

Recto, bottom, middle of the page

  1. ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī Saʿīdī

  2. [price] per [qinṭār]         firewood

  3. 27 [pāras?]                      qinṭārs

  4.                                           27[5] [    ]

  5. [total:                        7425]

  6. [shipp]ing [cost]s

Recto, right margin, upside-down

  1. And my dear father [    ]

  2. says, ‘We will send the things, God, the exalted, willing.

  3. We haven’t forgotten them.’

  4. Greeting[s] to Sayyid Muḥammad and Sayyid ʿUmar [who are] over there.

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