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Petition in Ottoman Turkish from Salmūn [al-Iskandarānī] to "a high official, possibly the governor of Egypt" per Hathaway. […]
In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "T-S AS 178.88 gives voice to Salmūn himself, who petitions a high official, possibly the governor of Egypt, to take action against rapacious ‘kāshifs’ men’ who steal the sheep and other provisions that form part of the māl-i mīrī, the money and provisions that Egypt delivered to the imperial palace every year. […]
The kāshif of Buḥayra sub-province, immediately south of Alexandria, was responsible for the port city’s fresh water supply: once a year, he entered the city with 300 oxen, which over the course of a month, usually coinciding with September, turned the water wheels that filled the city’s 130 cisterns with water from the Naṣiriyya Canal, which formed Alexandria’s sole link to the Nile....
Salmūn
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ʿāmil-i Ḫażra
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My petition to the noble dust under the feet of his excellency is as follows:
There are places that produce income for al-Khaḍra muqāṭaʿa.
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