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Particularly noteworthy is this: payment is made not at the end of the year of lease, as was Muslim (and Jewish) law, and not in installments, as was also customary, but in one sum, in the eighth month after its inception. […]
"castle": qaṣr, which goes ultimately back to the smae Latin word as English "castle," designates also a primitive agricultural building: see Grohmann, APEL I, no. 72, pp. 268, 270.
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In Goitein's unpublished translation below, he comments at the end of the document: "There follows a note that the words added bewteen the lines, see notes 6 and 10 abobe, were essentail parts of the document.
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In the name of God, the All-merciful. And may God pray for our lord Muhammad, his prophet, and his family, and greet them with peace.
Marzūq b…
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