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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 172
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions 20,000 irdab of wheat. A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the …
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- الملك معز الدولة[...
- ]عشرين الف اردب قمحا
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State documentT-S AS 183.28
Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …
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State documentT-S Ar.42.51
Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. The warrantors (ḍumanāʾ) of a sugarcane plantation have received 56 ⅙ ḍarības of sugarcane (1,348,080 …
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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 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 NS 39.10
Recto: Two lines in Arabic script, probably a petition to a Fatimid vizier "mawlāy al-wazīr al-ajall ṣafiyy amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuh." In Judaeo-Arabic, between the lines …
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State 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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State documentBL OR 5566B.25
Recto: State report. 4 lines preserved. Mentions "Bū Kalījār the king of Ahwāz," probably identical with the Buyid Amir Abū Kālījār Marzubān in Persia (d. …
وزير ورد من عند بو كليجار ملك الاهواز
وانه وصل الى واسط وخرج اليه ثلثة نفر
من وجوه الا[تراك؟] وانه ساقهم ما لا
يرضيهم فقابلوه بالمكروه واراد…
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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 documentDK 256 (alt: XXI)
State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …
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State 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 الصالـ[ـحـ]ـي خلد الله
- ايامه واجعله منصور ابدا وينهو ان المماليك العطا…
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State documentENA NS 71.16
Petition (or maybe a report) from Ibrāhīm al-Naqīb to ʿAbd al-Karīm. The sender repeatedly asserts that he serves as the representative or head (naqīb) of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك
ابرهيم النقيب
يقبل الارض وينهي بين يدي
الشيخ عبد الكريم بان…
الى العلم ان المملوك عمل نقيب المجالس في
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State documentENA 3952.6
Petition from a Jewish man to a Muslim general (al-isfahsalārī > isfahsalār), possibly named Bahāʾ al-Dīn or Bahāʾ al-Dawla. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: probably …
- ]اليهودي
- ]الفقير الضعيف الغريب
- ]الاسفهسلاري البهآي سلطان جيوش المسلمين
- ]انه وينهي انه رجل يهودي ضعيف غريب كان
- ]به الحال من الفقر والعدم ولم يكن…
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State documentT-S H10.299
Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. The petitioner …
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- يقبل الارض بالمجلس السامي المولوي الاميري
- الاوحدي الاعزي الاخصي المجاهد المثاغر
- المرابط الاسفهسلار الكريم المخدومي شهاب الدين…
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State documentT-S NS 228.41
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh. In Arabic script. Ṭāhir had rented a shop in Alexandria from …
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- المملوك
- طاهر بن اسحق
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية العلية الاكرم الاسفهسلار الاشرف
- المقد…
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State 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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State 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: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
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State documentT-S NS 207.57
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
………………………………………..ام………….
ىعـ[]...الله تعالى واستناد الله……….
الـ]ـدعا الصالح و[الـ]ـصلوة والطلبه قبل….بما ارجو من الله
غير خاف عن حضرته كيف ح…
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State documentENA 3728.10 + ENA 3728.9
Fatimid state report from a lower official to the caliph or other high official(s), including raʾy clause, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. Only the last two lines …
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State documentMoss. III,207
Verso: State document, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of one of the policemen of the vizier's ship (al-mutawaffī min al-raqqāṣīn al-mustakhdama bi-rasm markab …
عبده
امتثل ما امر به ووجد المتوفي من الرقاصين
المستخدمة برسم مركب الوزارة المحروس
واحد قصر مشاهرته على هذه الخدمة ما وجب
لذي الحجة سنة ارب…
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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 AS 151.8
Verso (original use): Two lines of a large document in Arabic script containing praises for the ruler and gratitude for his protection (amn) and justice …
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- وابقـ[ ]عليهم من الامن وشملهم من العدل
- ]ـعده..مولانا صلوات الله عليه وعز سلطانه
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State documentENA 3974.3
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
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- عبدها يحيى بن الحسن من ناحية< >
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- اعلم مولاتنا السيدة خلد الله ملكَها وثبت عزها ببقا مولانا وسيدنا
- الامام الظاهر لاعزاز…
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- Her slave Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan from the district of
: - In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- I inform our mistress, the lady—may Go…
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State documentT-S Ar.42.195 + T-S Ar.38.128
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …
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ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[
الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[
اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب وعند مولا…
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State documentT-S AS 181.9
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe. There is …
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ويسئل في الانعام عليه والا[حسان اليه]
وخروج التوقيع العالي زاده الله نفا[دا]
وعلوا باطلاق لهم عن ذلك
وللمجلس السامي ادام الل…
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State documentENA NS 12.15
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
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- بسـ[ـم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
- صلوات الله[وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وسلامه على سيدنا ومولانا الامام]
- الظاهر لاعزاز دين الـ[ـله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائ…
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State documentENA 3951.3
Petition. In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the …
- المملوك
- يحيى التاجر
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- يقبل الارض ويل الانعام عليه
- والاحسان اليه بالفسح عنه بالخط الكريم زاده
- الله شرفا ونفاذا بالخدمة (؟…
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State documentENA NS 71.8
Petition to a higher official from a military general or army veteran based on "ṣibyān al-khāṣṣ". The petitioner says he comes from the class of …
- كـ]ـان من احد المماليك صبيان الخاص وهو المخلص سيف الـ[ـدولة
ـ]ـك واعبائهم مشهور بالنهضة والشجاعة والفروسية مستحق[
]في امره [ ] احضر تحته فرس ملك…
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State documentENA NS 13.15
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Fragment from the middle of the document. Refers to the well-known Jewish leader [Daniel …
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State documentT-S K6.98
Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman …
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State documentT-S NS 300.71
Petition, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Three and a half lines are preserved. The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt …
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- انه من جملة التجار الموردين الى الديار المصرية خلد الله[
- وهو من اهل الستر والسلامة لازم للطرائق الحميدة[
- الا جزا وهو [يجدد] تقبيل الارض ويسئل …
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State documentT-S K2.96
Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 …
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- ⟦ناصر⟧
- ناصح الدين اسحق
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المملوك
عبد الباقى بن يحيى اليهودى
المقيم بلمليج
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State documentMoss. VII,10.1
Verso (original use): Fragment from a Fatimid decree of investiture for Abū l-Bayān Mūsā and another person, appointed rightfully (بما يقتضيه العدل ويوجبه الحق) to …
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State 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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State documentMoss. IV,56.1
Blessing formula for the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allah (1131-1149 CE), possibly a draft petition. See also T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid …
(May) the prayer of God and His blessings, His ever-growing benefactions, His greetings and call of Peace (be) upon our lord and master, the Imām al-…
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State documentENA 3974.4
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
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العبد المملوك
منصور بن صدقة من اهل سنديون
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيد…
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The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Ṣadaqa from the people of Sandiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The blessing…
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State documentT-S AS 177.262
State-related report on unrest all over Egypt, from the Delta (Ṭalkha and Suwayd on recto) to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd on verso). Mentions Bedouins (al-ʿurbān and …
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] على مخالطته ولا الذين منه ……… تقدم ذكره
]حوى بينه وبينهم خطاب يكرر ويذكر لما مضى
] واستقر الصلح وشروطه {{عا}} وشرطوا عليه نقل
] العرب…
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State documentENA 3947.3
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for "the lofty rescript" (التوقيع العالي زاده الله شرفا وعلوا) apparently concerning a certain Abū Saʿd, "sitting …
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- التوقيع العالي زاده الله شرفا وعلوا الى الشيخ ابو سعد
- باسشفاف حاله وتمكينه من الجلوس في بعض الحوانيت
- لتحيي هو وعائلته رحمة عليهم واحسانا اليهم…
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State documentT-S Ar.42.173
Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …
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- المملوك يقبل الارض وينهي انه كان انعم عليه بالخدمة في [
- طـ[ ]....للديوان المعمور
- من الجاري[ …
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State 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) …
- الـ
- ثبت الله
- يقوت بها في كـ[ـل
- القوت وله حيلة
- في الدين الذي كان
- الامر العالي فيما [
- انجز الله لمولانا وعده و[
- وقد كتب العبد صفـ[
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State documentBL OR 5557B.1
Petition or report. Fragment, three lines preserved. Requests intervention in a dispute between someone and ʿImrān b. Lāwī (ʿImrān b. Levi, possibly Abū ʿImrān Moshe …
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State documentT-S AS 102.90
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text.
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عليـ]ـهم ما شمل كله المعظم (؟) في هذه الايام
الزاهرة القاهرة عدلا واحسانا ورهبة ور حمة
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه رايها العالي في ذلك
ان …
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State documentAIU XII.105
Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad …
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State documentT-S Ar.42.134 + T-S Ar.49.151 + T-S Ar.42.156
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
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وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 308
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
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- وصلـــــــــــــــــــ
- من عابد(؟) حمزة(؟) حكر الطاحونة
- بحارة اليهود تعلق وافق
- عبد القادر السماك
- وذالك عن ١٢٦٧ سنة
- ٢٧
- فقط لسبعة وعشرين قرش
- وا…
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State documentT-S AS 176.218
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a caliph, in a sloppy hand. Lower left corner. Some of the details of the case may be …
] من الشجرة بمصر عنده غارمين(؟) بهم وو[
ثـ]ـلاث دينار واودعوا ذلك عنـ[ـد
]العبد كشف ما ذكره من حاله والصد[قـ]ـة عليه
] لنحيي بذلك ولمولانا ص…
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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 NS 137.29
State document in Arabic script. Petition or report? Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn, a …
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State 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 documentT-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5
Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …
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