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  1. 1551State documentT-S Ar.35.48

    State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.

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    1. [صلوات الله عليه وعلى اباىه الطاهرين وابناىه الـ] 

    2. منتظرين والاجابة عن ذلك انه في غيرها ذلك و[رايـ]ـها [العالـ]ـي 

    3. فيما سله بثقته ان شا ال…

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  2. 1552State documentT-S Ar.40.55

    Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …

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  3. 1553State documentT-S Ar.41.83

    Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …

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  4. 1554State documentT-S Ar.42.51

    State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. السيد الاجل الاوحد المكين
    3. الثقة الامين فخر الوزرا وعظيم المملكة
    4. شرف الدولة العلوية مختص الخلافة
    5. الفاطمية تاج الاصفيا عز…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.

    2. The most lofty and singular lord, the firm,

    3. the confidence, the trustworthy, pride …

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  5. 1555State documentT-S Ar.42.51

    Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. A ḍarība seems to be an amount of cuttings you have to plant, and each …

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    1.  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. مبلغ ما قبضوه الضمنا من القصب برسم النصب
    3. من الضرائب [vacat] اربعة وخمسين ضريبة وسدس
    4. قـ[ـبض] ثمنها حسابا عن كل ضريبة خم…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    2. The amount of ḍarības of sugarcane that the warrantors have collected with regard to the …

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  6. 1556Legal documentT-S Ar.53.73

    Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …

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  7. 1557LetterT-S AS 180.140

    Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …

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  8. 1558State documentT-S H5.115

    State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …

    ... new, and trustworthy regarding people and property, a name is required

    that gathers together all these epithets so that he may be distinguished w…

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  9. 1559State documentT-S Misc.6.5

    Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.

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  10. 1560State documentT-S Misc.6.5

    State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."

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  11. 1561Legal documentT-S Misc.6.113

    Iqrār, though in some ways resembles a state document with fiscal content. In Arabic script. 16 full and 4 half lines on paper. Fiscal hand, …

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  12. 1562State documentT-S Misc.8.67 + Halper 465

    Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …

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    1. . . . ها فيها في كف القوم الذين قد ذكر رجالهم عما يعتمدون وقصرهم [
    2. عنه والامر بالشد من الـداوودي وتقوية يده ومنته وتنفيذ كلمته
    3. لـيستثمر بذلك ح…

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  13. 1563State documentT-S NS J103 + T-S 10J17.6

    Recto: Decree, fragment, to two local officials stating that a certain Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Waḥsh should be exempted from paying taxes (or from standing …

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    1. الدين الذكر والناهض نصر ادام الله
    2. سلامتهما وحراستهما ونعمتهما

    3. على هذا المثال يعفوا ابو الفرج

    4. بن بو الوحش اليهودي من ضمان

    5. الحانوت ولا يح…

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    1. (titulature) Naṣr, may God prolong

    2. their (dual) well-being, protection and benefaction, 

    3. about this (case): they have exempted Abū l-Fara…

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  14. 1564State documentBodl. MS heb. b 18/23

    Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which an official of a congregational mosque, perhaps the chief khaṭīb, complains about delayed …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. لمولاتنا السيدة الكريمة خلد الله ملـ[ـكها وحرس عـ]ـزها وادام عـ[ـلاها]
    3. وكبت اعداها في اصطناع المعروف وفعل الخير 
    4. عواىد …

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    1. (Iftitāḥ: protokoll) In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. 
    2.  To our mistress, the noble lady, may God make her dominion eternal…

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  15. 1565State documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/4–5

    Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …

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  16. 1566State documentENA 1177.76

    State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …

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  17. 1567LetterENA 2558.21

    Letter from a woman, in Cairo, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb the brother-in-law of [...], in Malīj. In Arabic script. The sender is …

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  18. 1568State documentENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T-S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245

    State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …

    1. To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.

    2. Praise be to God alone, God bless our …

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  19. 1569State documentENA 2917.1

    Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …

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  20. 1570State documentENA 2922.7

    State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …

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  21. 1571State documentENA 3842.1

    Fatimid official correspondence. Addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf (likely the caliph himself, as in ENA 3974.4 (PGPID 11702)) and to the qāʾid ʿIzz al-Dawla. Mentions the …

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    1. كتابي . اسيره(؟) الى الموقف الاشرف والى حضرة مولاي القائد
    2. الاجل عز الدولة وحسامها ادام الله تمكينه ولما وصل ا[بن/بو؟]
    3. نسا؟ الى طرابلس امتنع ال…

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  22. 1572Legal documentENA 3905.2

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …

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  23. 1573State documentENA 3935.5

    Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …

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  24. 1574State documentENA 3945.4

    Tax receipt for jizya in the name of Bū Naṣr al-Yahūdī for the year 514. Trigger: addā. Contains a registration mark.

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  25. 1575State documentENA 3945.5

    Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) in Fustat for Mawhūb b. Ghālib, a Christian. Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE (previous PGP descriptions gave the …

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  26. 1576Legal documentENA 3965.11

    Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …

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  27. 1577State documentENA 3971.23

    Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …

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  28. 1578State 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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    1. عبدها يحيى بن الحسن من ناحية  < >  
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. اعلم مولاتنا السيدة خلد الله ملكَها وثبت عزها ببقا مولانا وسيدنا 
    4. الامام الظاهر لاع…

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    1. Her slave Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan from the district of :
    2. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
    3. I inform our mistress, the lady—may Go…

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  29. 1579Paraliterary textENA 3982.36

    Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …

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  30. 1580Legal documentENA 4011.1

    Verso (original use): Legal or state document in Arabic script, in what looks like a chancery hand. Fragment from the bottom of the document (4 …

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  31. 1581State documentENA NS 18.26

    Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …

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    1. واصلنا الشكوى فيما نفعنا معه [
    2. وورد السجل المكرم من الحضرة المجيدة يذكر فيه ما
    3. انهاه سباع بن فرج اليهودي من حال اليهود الذمة
    4. بطبرية وان في…

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  32. 1582State documentF 1908.44S + Mainz MS 2

    Report to an Ayyubid official mentioning the current ruler al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (the First, d. 1218) and his recently deceased son Shams al-Dīn Mamdūd (aka Mawdūd). …

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  33. 1583Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 54

    State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated 5 Dhu …

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  34. 1584Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VIII,479.8

    Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …

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  35. 1585State documentT-S 10J10.2

    State document, report, Fatimid. The report is written on the 3rd of Dhū l-Ḥijja, of an unspecified year, and mentions a previous report that arrived …

    1. اخر ما القدرة(؟) بعده عمل بتاريح يوم الاربعا الثالث

    2. من ذي الحجة….ذكر اخر الوارد من الديوان السعيد

    3. والذي تجدد بعد ذلك خلو الاسواق من الاخباز 

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  36. 1586State documentT-S 10J17.3

    Petition. Report fragment, probably early Ayyubid period (taqbīl clause + paleography + reused by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, whose documents cluster ca. 1190–1210; see description …

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  37. 1587State documentT-S 10J19.13

    State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.

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  38. 1588LetterT-S 12.470

    Letter in Arabic to a certain Amīr [...] al-Dawla wa-[...]hā, perhaps reporting on business setbacks and the imposition of a new tax. The sender begins …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    2. عدل مولاي الامير الجليل رشيد(؟) الدولة وموصيها (؟) اطال الله بقاه وادام 

    3. تاييده وتمهيده  وقدرته ورفعته وسلطانه وس…

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  39. 1589Legal documentT-S 13J19.10

    Legal/official document in Arabic script. Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك

    3. سيف الدولة…. العميم صنيعة امي…

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    1. In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
    2. There appeared at the majlis al-khidma the supervising, trustworthy amīr, glory of the ca…

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  40. 1590State documentT-S Ar.30.273

    Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with …

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    1. العبد المملوك

    2. موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا

    5. وسيد…

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    1. The servant and slave
    2. Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.

    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    4. The benedictions of God a…

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  41. 1591State 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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    1. الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]

    2. لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين] 

    3. وادام ق…

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    1. al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]

    2. of the  dāʿīs of the believers, may God…

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  42. 1592State 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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    1. وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل

    2. رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…

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  43. 1593State documentT-S AS 184.156

    State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …

    1. مولانا وسيد[نا
    2. وابنائه الاكرمين [
    3. المجلس السامي السـيد[ي
    4. الكاملي الهادي عضد [الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقاءه امير المؤمنين]

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  44. 1594LetterT-S NS 288.179

    Recto: A private petition/letter in Arabic script from ʿAbdallāh b. Ṣāʿid to the son of al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, in Minyat Ziftā Jawād. Most of the addressee's …

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  45. 1595State documentT-S NS 321.47

    Fatimid-era petition. From Muʿammar [...] al-Tūnisī, in trouble on account of the capitation tax. He says he does not have enough money to buy food …

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  46. 1596State documentAIU XII.15

    Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …

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  47. 1597State documentAIU XII.102

    Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …

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  48. 1598State documentBodl. MS heb. b 18/21 + T-S Ar.30.278

    Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to …

    1. קד כאנו אלעביד אסתגארו אללה
    2. סבחאנה ובאלחצרה אלטאהרה
    3. פי אן תתצדק עליהם באלתצרף פי
    4. אדיאנהם חסב [[אכתיארהם]] מא
    5. יתסע להם ואן לא ימכן בעצהם
    6. א [2]
    7. قد كان…

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  49. 1599State 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 …

    1. ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة
    2. ومملوكه الامير عازم الدولة اعزها الله
    3. ومملوكه سعيد بن لا…
    4. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    5. لست نسأل في مودة الشيخ السيد اطال الله ب…

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    1. al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……

    2. In the name of God the most merciful

    3. I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…

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  50. 1600State documentENA 3700.1 + BL OR 5557K.10 + T-S NS 162.34 + T-S NS 70.10

    Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …

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    1. [             سيد]ي الاجل

    2. ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع

    3. رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…

    1. [ ] my most glorious lord

    2. When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,

    3. he desired to sho…

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