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Letter from the Muslim landowner and official in Nubia Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh, the ikhshīl in Ibrīm. […]
Regarding commercial matters and the treatment of travelers. Lāmiʿ acknowledges having received the eparch's letter about travelers and merchants arriving by boat, and mentions that "the lofty presence" (the eparch) had released the boats, despite rising prices in the region and the fact that travelers have faced hardships and merchants have had to pay high prices for goods—apparently an allusion to the eparch’s intervention to alleviate an economic crisis by granting permission for the shipment of supplies. He then asks that a traveling official named Saʿāda, who is related to someone called "Hero of the Dynasty, Ḥāmid," receive proper treatment and protection from harassment, and not be hindered in matters of "pricing or anything else." Shows the interpenetration of Fatimid and Nubian political authority between the first and second cataracts of the Nile.
ادام الله سلامته وحراسته ونعمته
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- ضل ثقته وشاكر بركته
- لامع بن حسن الكنزى
I inform the Ikshīl, the Master of the Horses, the vizier of the king—may God prolong his life,and cause his protection and wellbeing to endure—that his letter to me has referred tothe condition of the travellers from the boats and of others and that he has striven to amelioratethis situation and the lofty, most glorious and munificent presence, may God establish his happiness, has graciouslyreleased the boats, in the knowledge of what the country is undergoingwith regard to the rising of prices, for the travellers have experienced hardship and (the prices) have risento the disadvantage of the merchants, so that they have acquired goods at high prices.- Related People
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