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  1. 2101State documentT-S Ar.38.93

    Fol. 2: Copy of a document dated Jumādā I, 589 AH (= May-June 1193 CE) appointing Abū l-Maʿālī ʿAbdallāh b. Abū l-Riḍāʿ b. Faraḥ, who …

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    1. الملك الافضل نور الدنيا والدين
    2. والمظفر علي بن الملك الناصر محيي دولة امير المومنين
    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. من حميد سنننا ومهيد سن…

    Al-Malik al-Afḍal....

    In the name of God the merciful and compassionate.

    Through our praiseworthy conduct, our impeccable ways, our upright courses a…

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  2. 2102State documentT-S AS 176.394

    Small fragment of an official report. Two full lines are preserved and part of a third. Mentions "explaining the situation" and "the fleet" (al-usṭūl).

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  3. 2103State 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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  4. 2104State documentT-S AS 152.10

    Verso (original use): Fragment of an official-looking letter, potentially a report. The ends of two lines and a couple words from a third line are …

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  5. 2105State 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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  6. 2106State documentT-S 10J16.13

    Verso (original use): Small fragment preserving two lines from a state document in a chancery hand with wide line spacing. ما يتحصل منهم . . …

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  7. 2107State documentT-S K6.150.2

    Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …

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  8. 2108State documentFriedberg MSS 9-003

    Fol. 7v: Fragment (9 lines) from an unusual state document. Mentions the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) and contains many Greek/Coptic numerals, which is atypical for fiscal …

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  9. 2109State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.11 (Michaelides 11)

    Official letter of the Mamlūk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "une lettre de l'epoque des mamelucks caucasiens (?)" ; on a separate small …

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  10. 2110State documentDK 147.6

    Administrative document(s), probably. On one side: ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Ḥasan 1 dinar waẓīfa. On the other side: Muslim b. Salāma 1 dinar waẓīfa. There are …

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  11. 2111State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 427

    Official document of some sort. May be headed "makhzūma." Above that, there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīn). Refers to money exchange (ṣarf) and …

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  12. 2112State documentT-S NS 305.148

    Tax receipt.

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  13. 2113State documentT-S AS 176.57

    Likely a state/fiscal account. One page is headed "ʿamal." Needs examination.

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  14. 2114State documentENA 3906.8

    Decree fragment. The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله …

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  15. 2115State documentDār al-kutub inv. no. 404r

    Tax receipt issued for the mutawallī of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Jumādā II 403 (). Tax year: …

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  16. 2116State documentAIU IX.A.3

    Likely a decree to a lower official, to judge by the sloppy hand. The section toward the end contains inshallāh, then kutiba, with the date …

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  17. 2117State documentT-S 12.316

    Decree fragment, Fatimid, 11th century. The preserved text reads: "وهذا الغلام فقد كان ورد الـ". Reused by Efrayim b. Shemarya, who was active 1007–1055 CE …

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  18. 2118State documentT-S AS 119.51

    Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script, probably state related. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  19. 2119State documentBL Or. 5557O.43–50 + T-S NS 198.81 + T-S NS 273.48 + T-S NS 273.180 + T-S NS 273.181 + T-S NS 273.188

    Numerous fragments of a large stage document with extremely large calligraphic Arabic script, probably a decree. Later cut and reused to create multiple bifolios of …

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  20. 2120State documentT-S NS 327.99

    Bifolio of official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs further examination.

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  21. 2121State documentENA 3412.7

    Fragment of a larger document in Arabic on verso, most likely a medieval-era decree. The only visible line reads: "... الصناعة المحروسة ليعمله" (perhaps referring …

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  22. 2122State documentT-S Ar.39.395

    State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property …

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  23. 2123State documentT-S AS 179.250

    Tax receipt. Needs examination for details. Written on the back of an earlier (legal?) document in Arabic script, of which only the upper right corner …

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  24. 2124State documentT-S Misc.22.299

    Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …

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    …..والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلامه على اله الائمة الطاهرين

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    1. حسب اعتدادي بتط…

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  25. 2125State documentP. Washington Libr. of Congress Inv. Ar. Paper 63

    State document, probably late Fatimid or Ayyubid. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad the miller reports to a wazir (name unattested) about the dilapidated condition of the masjid …

    1. عبده احمد بن علي بن احمد الدقاق

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    3. عدل سيدنا الوزير الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه قد شمل سائر

    4. عبيده ورعاه(؟…

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  26. 2126State documentAIU VII.E.43

    Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …

    1. شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..

    2. ]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم

    3. ]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته

    4. ]هم الله على السدا…

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  27. 2127State documentT-S AS 180.226

    Tax receipt. Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of …

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  28. 2128State documentT-S AS 136.99

    A few words from the end of a line of a state document in large Arabic script. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part …

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  29. 2129State documentT-S K11.28

    Official-looking correspondence in Arabic of which three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. States that something arrived from the addressee (qad kāna waṣalanī al-murr(?) bi-mawlāya al-sharīf. . …

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  30. 2130State documentT-S AS 182.228

    Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."

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  31. 2131State documentT-S Ar.39.372

    Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …

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    1. [       ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]

    2. مبلغ وصـ[و]لات في ثمن قنده المبيع من شونه وهو

    3. الف واربعمائة . . . . . .…

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  32. 2132State documentT-S Ar.11.35

    Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …

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  33. 2133State documentT-S Ar.42.166

    Note (ruqʿa) reminding recipient to fulfil his promise (of which no details are provided).

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  34. 2134State documentJRL B 7900

    Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …

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  35. 2135State documentMoss. IV,67.1

    Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting. In Arabic script. Mentions the treasury (bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr): بالنفق من بيت المال المعمور من جملة . . . . …

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  36. 2136State documentT-S Ar.30.308

    State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …

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  37. 2137State documentT-S AS 209.323

    State document, in Arabic script. A decree fragment, more precisely. Only four fragmentary lines preserved. Seems to be in response to a plea concerning the …

    1. ا]لمحنة قد ثبت اعادة الزكات[                             ]ره
    2. .......يجدد بعد نفوذ الكتاب وما ضمنه من اعادة من اعلـ[
    3. ]ـوا للعود الى مستقر خدمتهم فسير…

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  38. 2138State documentT-S 13J12.5

    State document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary decree, barely one word readable per line. In perpendicular is another Arabic script in thin pen containing a …

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  39. 2139State documentT-S Ar.39.156

    Recto: Order from a higher official, or a copy of one. Issuing instructions about looking after the property of 'the two noble mosques,' something to …

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  40. 2140State documentT-S K25.240.5

    Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …

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  41. 2141State documentT-S NS 98.22

    Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …

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    1. ……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [

    2. ]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها

    3. ]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة …

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  42. 2142State documentT-S NS 327.32 + T-S NS 327.45

    Verso: Tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ I 404. On recto …

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  43. 2143State documentT-S AS 176.67

    Probably a tax receipt. Only the registration notes at the top and the basmala from the original document are preserved.

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  44. 2144State documentMoss. IV,291.1

    Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Decree. Two lines only, a tentative reading is as follows "لي الكتاب...وقد الزمهم العمل والحال". YU. Written …

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  45. 2145State documentT-S AS 177.435

    Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.

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  46. 2146State documentMoss. IXa,2.8

    Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …

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  47. 2147State documentT-S 13J7.14

    Petition, fragment, in Arabic script. The sender says that he (or less likely someone else) is unable to provide for himself (a trope of petitions) …

    1. الـ
    2. ثبت الله
    3. يقوت بها في كـ[ـل
    4. القوت وله حيلة
    5. في الدين الذي كان
    6. الامر العالي فيما [
    7. انجز الله لمولانا وعده و[
    8. وقد كتب العبد صفـ[

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  48. 2148State documentMIAC 148

    Bill from the naval armed forces – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 148) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …

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  49. 2149State documentT-S AS 202.396

    Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a …

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    1. تقبل الارض بين يديها وتنهي بساميها دامت [نعمتها
    2. وهلـكت اعاديها انها امراة منقطعة صعلوكة فقيرة ليس
    3. لها ...... الا
    1. [The slave] kisses the ground before him and reports to his loftiness—may his favour endure
    2. and his enemies perish—that she is a cut-off woman, indi…

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  50. 2150State documentT-S AS 181.9

    Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Fiscal accounting, and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa …

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    1. يتم(؟) كتاب(؟) الغلات

    2. بجزيرة بني نصر والبحيرة

    3. مما تسلمه مبارك

    4. وغطريف من جملة المستخدمين

    5. بالزكات السامي

    6. عشر ويبات

    7. بفضل …

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