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  1. 51State documentMoss. IXa,2.68

    Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …

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    1. المبلغ نصف
    2. الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين

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    1. الحمد لله حمد الشاكرين

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. ادى ابراهيم بن…

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  2. 52State documentT-S AS 177.535

    Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.

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  3. 53State documentAIU XII.69

    Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …

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  4. 54State documentT-S AS 132.66 + T-S AS 132.65

    The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reads …

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  5. 55State documentT-S AS 165.215

    Probably a state document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. The Arabic document is very difficult to read.

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  6. 56State documentT-S NS 327.2d

    Tax receipt for a payment of a quarter dinar for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."

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  7. 57State documentT-S NS 325.232

    Fatimid state document. Report to al-Malik al-Afḍal from al-thaghr al-maḥrūs (probably Tyre). Ca. 1108 CE. Related fragments are as follows (the clusters are defined based …

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  8. 58State documentT-S Ar.35.26

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn b. Hiba in New Cairo.

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  9. 59State documentT-S Ar.41.43

    Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …

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  10. 60State documentT-S AS 177.450

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.

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  11. 61State documentT-S Ar.40.142.1

    Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (Khan reads 402). Written …

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  12. 62State documentT-S H11.90 + T-S NS 274.22 + T-S NS 114.79

    Official letter in Arabic script. Mentions business or fiscal accounting words like istikhrāj and ḥisāb. Joins: Marina Rustow. Needs examination.

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  13. 63State documentT-S Ar.35.44

    Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Lāwī (Moshe b. Levi) the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq. Dated: …

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  14. 64State documentCUL Add.3336

    Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. …

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    1. ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها  ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]

    2. مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة

    3. بجوجر وان…

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    1. … Dhukhr al-Mulk Kawkab al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Abū Manṣūr Bakhtiyār the commander (?), may God make his support eternal,

    2. your correspondence …

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  15. 65State documentT-S AS 156.211

    Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …

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  16. 66State documentT-S NS 306.69

    Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official requesting to summon some people. Portions of 5-6 lines are preserved. Refers to agents, a …

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    1. ....
    2. ]ـرف بعد يوكل لي شيا عد[
    3. ]... بالله تعالى ومحلها السامي في ان
    4. ]لي وكيلان خروج امرها السامي باحضار هذين الوكلا
    5. عبد الرحمن وبو الحسن وللا[

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  17. 67State documentENA 402.1 + ENA 402.2

    Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …

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  18. 68State documentT-S AS 179.323

    Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …

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  19. 69State documentT-S 8H22.18

    Fiscal register, in Arabic script.

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    1. الاطلاق في مخزومته
    2. ليومي السبت والاحد لاحدى عشرة
    3. بقين من المحرم خمسة عشر دينارا

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  20. 70State documentT-S AS 178.33

    Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …

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  21. 71State documentNLI 577.2/7

    Verso (original use): Four lines from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān. Dating: likely early 11th century. Needs examination.

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  22. 72State documentT-S AS 183.24

    Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .

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  23. 73State documentT-S NS 315.134b + T-S NS 315.134a

    Official-looking report in Arabic script. Refers to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Mukhtār b. Bushayr (? cf. ENA 4020.62). Mentions the governors (ʿāmilīn) of various locations. Needs examination. …

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  24. 74State documentT-S AS 177.412

    Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …

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    1. يقبل الارض بين ايدها وانـ[هي
    2. ويستجيب فـ[ـيها سـ]ـوالها صالح[
    3. والحمد لله وحده وصلواته عـ[ـلى سيدنا محمد نبيه واله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما

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  25. 75State documentT-S Ar.35.281

    Receipt of some kind. The sum named is 1/2 dinar. Dated: Possibly 13 Ramaḍān 490 AH, but this should be checked. The payment seems to …

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  26. 76State documentT-S K25.237

    Report to the caliph Al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh in which a previous report is mentioned. Dating: ca. 411–27/1021–36. On verso there is an Aramaic midrash. …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن [الرح]يم
    2. صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته ونوامي زكواته علي
    3. مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
    4. وعلى ابائ…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his most excellent greetings andincreasing benefacti…

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  27. 77State documentENA NS 77.326

    Verso: Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. In Arabic script. Mentions the director of a government bureau (mutawallī dīwān al-khāṣṣ, probably) and "the conditions in the …

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  28. 78State documentENA 3926.8

    Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …

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  29. 79State documentT-S Ar.37.224

    Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …

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  30. 80State documentT-S Ar.35.48

    Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …

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  31. 81State documentT-S NS 234.50

    Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …

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  32. 82State documentT-S NS 297.196

    Small fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Dated: 540s, 570s, or 590s AH.

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  33. 83State documentT-S Ar.42.186

    A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …

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  34. 84State documentT-S AS 176.153

    Verso: Fragment of a state document. Only three lines are preserved. Refers to the caliph ([amīr] al-muʾminīn) and to Khumārtakīn al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī (خمارتكين الافضلي الجيوشي). …

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  35. 85State documentJRL B 4412

    State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.

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    1. اطال الله بقاه وادام تمكينه وسناه
    2. ]      في خمسة رحل(رجل؟) يعرف 

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  36. 86State documentT-S AS 183.138

    Receipt for the capitation tax of the Jewish man Maʿālī b. Yūsuf in Fustat and Cairo for the year 500-something (550? 505?).

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  37. 87State documentT-S NS 306.144

    Verso: Official-looking receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh for the rent of his shop. On recto there is an earlier (state?) document in Arabic script. Needs …

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  38. 88State documentT-S NS J582

    State document, probably. It refers to itself as a "receipt" (wuṣūl). In Arabic script. Location: Dahrūṭ. Dated: Ramaḍān 533 AH, which is 1129 CE. (Also …

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  39. 89State documentT-S Ar.42.204

    Official report (or just a letter). Probably a draft. Written in 4 columns on a bifolio, with many lines crossed out and some of the …

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  40. 90State documentMoss. IXa,2.73

    Jizya receipt, in Arabic script. Faḍāʾil b. Bū l-Faraj the Jew pays one dirham towards his capitation tax in Fusṭāṭ for the year 584 H.

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  41. 91State documentT-S K25.212

    Small fragment of a decree (parts of two lines are preserved, but no full words). Reused for a medical recipe in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand might …

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  42. 92State documentENA 3079.5

    Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …

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  43. 93State documentT-S Misc.25.135

    Six lines of poetry or rhymed prose in Arabic script, with wide line spacing. Probably the introduction to a formal (state?) letter. Reused for Hebrew …

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  44. 94State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 691

    State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.

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  45. 95State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 788

    Small fragment of a state document. On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik …

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  46. 96State documentMoss. VIII,235.1-3

    State document, most probably a draft, in Arabic script with scribal practice. Begins with the regular honorifics and mentions longing towards the august presence "shawq …

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  47. 97State documentT-S NS 184.17

    Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination

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  48. 98State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 77

    State document, probably. In Arabic script. طريقته ما ظهر منه... والشروع في... عن كتابة وخدمة اذ كان لا فرق... في كل حال. On verso there …

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  49. 99State documentT-S K6.98

    Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman …

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    2. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and [most excellent pe…

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  50. 100State documentENA 2148.94

    Report or petition in Arabic script. Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the …

    1. من يصلح للخدمة ليثبت     و[
    2. يعرف بابن خليفة من اهل [
    3. الشريف ومونس الصقلي [
    4. والي طحا هجم على بيته وهتك حـ[ـريمه
    5. ان النائب عنه انما حتم بمحضر مـ[ـن

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