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State documentT-S Ar.39.205
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentT-S Ar.34.90
Verso: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
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View document detailsState documentT-S AS 177.175
Receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the office of Accounts on …
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State documentT-S Misc.22.14
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentT-S Ar.34.89
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentT-S AS 177.591
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State 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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- بسم الله الرحمن [الرح]يم
- صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته ونوامي زكواته علي
- مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
- وعلى ابائ…
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View document detailsState documentBL OR 5561A.2
State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus …
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View document detailsState documentMoss. VIII,141.1
State document, unidentified genre. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Dating: mentions the year 421 AH, corresponding to 1030 CE. Possibly a record of …
في جمدى الأول سنة احدى
وذكر ذلك فورد التوقيع ا
سنة احدى وعشرين اربع مائة ا
والقط (؟) الفرش (؟) الدراحـ[
في ذلك الوقت عن (؟) صه(؟) و
التو…
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110
State documentT-S Ar.38.140
Recto: two documents. The first is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant Abū …
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State documentT-S K25.189
Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …
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112
State documentBodl. MS heb. d 78/38
Fiscal account or receipt dated Muḥarram 437H (July–August 1045). Closing five lines. (MR)
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113
State documentT-S Ar.40.142.2
Fol. 2: receipt for the amount of 2 and a quarter (dirhams?) relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl …
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View document detailsState documentBL OR 5557B.17
Contract of lease for an irrigation channel on the jazīra of Fustat (the Nile island later known as Rawḍa). Dated: 18 (or maybe 28?) Shawwāl …
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115
State documentT-S 10J7.7
Fatimid state report from a government official: "The deceased was an employee in the western caravan. He returned and lost his mind in the course …
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- عبده ومملوكه
- المتوفى كان مستخدما فى السيارة الغربية
- وعاد وفل عنه فى اغضان سنة خمس واربعمائة
- وسقط بالوفاة ولم يقبض شيا من واجباته
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State documentT-S Ar.38.138
Report to the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of some Byzantine (Rūmī) merchants named Sergius the son of Constantine, Grasso the son of …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صلوات الله وبركانه ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته
- مولانا وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير المومنين
- وعلى ابائه ال…
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State documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/7
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Large format with 16 lines preserved, marginal notes, and crossings out. The document is an internal fiscal Fatimid accounting document …
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State documentT-S NS J121
Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
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119
State documentT-S Misc.22.286
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
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State documentT-S Ar.41.131
Petition to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār, regarding a fief worth 5500 dinars and a market worth 1000 faddān that were …
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صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…
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State documentT-S Ar.39.391
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
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الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
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State 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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State documentT-S AS 176.257
Recto: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office …
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State documentT-S AS 177.330
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of …
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State documentT-S NS 145.22
State document. Response to endorsement of a petition written by Yuḥannā b. Abī l-Layth (a Christian), who referred the case to the office of al-Afḍal. …
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- ...ـعر .. ان شا الله
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي السامي في ذلك ان شا الله
وكتب في العشر الاخر من شهر رمضان سنة ار…
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State documentT-S AS 133.111
Fiscal order requesting the registration of an expenditure (?) in the Fatimid dīwān al-majlis (privy council). Written in five (?) different hands, reflecting a complex …
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State documentENA NS 63.11
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
Bold channcery hand
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
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View document detailsState documentENA 2557.147
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
- ولخطر ينقضي من عين اعمال الراي الصائب والحيلة الثاقبة
- في تلافي هذه الفوارط اعظم خطر واكثر ضرر
- وكل ما هوذا يعتمد من النجوز ومن التدبير فهو ضد ما توجب…
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View document detailsState documentNLI 577.1/75
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province of Damietta (thagr dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in the middle. …
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View document detailsState documentT-S K25.211
Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE. Possible join with T-S Ar.22.140 …
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State documentENA 3700.1
Petition or report to the Fatimid chief qāḍī and chief dāʿī (القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفيـ[ـا قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة …
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State documentENA 3842.1
Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf and ʿIzz al-Dawla. Maybe Fatimid official correspondence. Mentions the amīrs Shujāʿ al-Dawla, Majd al-Dawla, and the city …
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كتابي . اسيره(؟) الى الموقف الاشرف والى حضرة مولاي القائد
الاجل عز الدولة وحسامها ادام الله تمكينه ولما وصل ا[بن/بو؟]
نسا؟ الى طرابلس امت…
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State documentBodl. MS Heb. d 66/13
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
- ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة
- ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة اعزها الله
ومملوكه سعيد بن لا…- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- لست نسأل في مودة الشيخ السيد اطال الله ب…
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State documentBodl. MS Heb. g 2/60–67
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
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View document detailsState documentMoss. IXa,2.37
State document, in Arabic script. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) petition to the Ayyubid Sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ regarding the injustice of the notables (ʿurafa) in the construction …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمقام العالي المولوي الملكي الـ[صالحـ]ـي (؟) خلد الله
اياديه واجعله منصور ابدا وينهوا ان المم…
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View document detailsState documentMoss. VIII,326.1
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
]. دولة……..
المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه
كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة…
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State documentT-S AS 102.42
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
- عـ]ـلى يد حجاج بن عبد الله بمشارفة كىىـ[
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View document detailsState documentMoss. V,135.1 + Moss. V,109b
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
- رحمته.....حميد الدولة حرسه الله
- لغرض.......
- ايده الله
- ورسالة سيدنا الـ[
- ستار (؟) النزلة (؟) ادام الله علاه في ذلك
- كاره بالاعمال كاملة فما في يدي
- من …
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View document detailsState documentMoss. IX,202.3
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
- ] . . . امير المومنين وعلى آبائه الطاهرين
- ] يقبل الارض امام المجلس العادلي السيفي
- ] الناصري(؟) الكاملي الهادي عضد الله به الدين
- ] ادام (وخلد؟) قدر…
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View document detailsState documentMichaelides (charta) A169
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
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State documentENA 2808.45
Small fragment of a Fatimid decree containing a truncated closing formula and the beginning of the date (day of the week only — Thursday). Interesting …
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View document detailsState documentENA 2461.42
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Dawla, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
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View document detailsState documentENA 2972.5
Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …
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View document detailsState documentENA 3511.1
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
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View document detailsState documentENA 4101.14a
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
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View document detailsState documentENA 4193.19
Petition, late Fatimid period given the blessings on a vizier, from a certain Ibn Mūsā (no forename given) concerning a Jew named (2) Bū l-Faraj …
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View document detailsState documentMoss. VIII,143
Letter, possibly official, relating to mosques and construction projects and donations. Mentions specifically the tiles of the mosque. Also "the properties of the government in …
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View document detailsState documentMoss. I,101
Fragment of a petition or at least a letter to a high official. ~9 lines are preserved. "... al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-nuṣayrī al-dhukhrī al-humāmī al-isfahsalārī …
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- الاميري الكبيري العضدي الـنصيري
- الذخري الهمامي الاسفهسلاري
- المؤيدي الظهري العوني [
- مجد الاسلام والمسلمين سيد الامرا
- في العالمين نصرة الغزاة…
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View document detailsState documentAIU XII.145
Left half of a single line in huge Arabic script from a chancery document, possibly a decree. A suggestive reading of the fragmented line is …
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View document detailsState documentT-S AS 182.251
Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …
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