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  1. 1State documentT-S Ar.42.204

    Official report (or just a letter). Probably a draft. Written in 4 columns on a bifolio, with many lines crossed out and some of the …

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  2. 2State documentENA NS 7.49

    Verso (original use): Fragment of a state report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved: "...the ṭalḥiyyūn(?), and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) …

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  3. 3State documentENA 2148.94

    Report or petition in Arabic script. Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the …

    1. من يصلح للخدمة ليثبت     و[
    2. يعرف بابن خليفة من اهل [
    3. الشريف ومونس الصقلي [
    4. والي طحا هجم على بيته وهتك حـ[ـريمه
    5. ان النائب عنه انما حتم بمحضر مـ[ـن

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  4. 4State documentL-G Ar. I.105

    Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …

    1. ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [

    2. ] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه

    3. ] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [ 

    4. ] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …

    1. ] al-Saʿīd. His correspondences in each [
    2. ] a dinar doesn’t generate from this in these [
    3. ]…every (?) installment, for the reason that these distric…

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  5. 5State documentT-S NS 150.254

    Report (official state correspondence). 6 lines from the middle section are preserved. Refers to audiences with the caliph, the amīr Wajīh al-Dawla, and someone traveling …

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    1. اليوم كان عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه عاد بن هرون

    2. الى عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه الامير وجيه الدولة يعلمه

    3. انه ساير عن الرملة الى…

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  6. 6State 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 …

    1. ]. دولة……..

    2. المملوك يقبل الارض امام المجلس السامي اعز الله سلطانه وينهي انه

    3. كان اصدر خدمته التي هي جواب الكتاب الكريم وكرار (؟) على….هذه الخدمة…

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  7. 7State documentT-S Ar.41.34

    State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …

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  8. 8State documentENA 2727.35 + ENA 2560.9

    Report on fiscal matters, draft.

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  9. 9State 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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  10. 10State documentT-S Ar.35.187

    Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ[ـيم
    2. حضر الى المجلس العالي العدلي ا[
    3. المولوي الافضلي الـ[ـجيوشي
    4. الاحمالي الاجمالي الاعزي الاميني ا[
    5. الامير العدل خاصة الما[

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  11. 11State documentT-S Ar.40.84

    Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) …

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  12. 12State documentENA 684.1

    Official letter. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu bi-mā li-l-ḥadra al-sāmiyya al-ʾaǧalliyya al-raʾīsiyya (l. 3), ʿalā al-ḥadrat …

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  13. 13State documentENA 3968.12

    Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content. Verso: The report was torn and reused for an order of a …

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  14. 14State documentT-S Ar.38.136

    Report of a provincial official, Ibn لفش(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …

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  15. 15State documentENA 3939.6

    Recto: Report fragment, 7 lines. The sender mentions a group of people who came before him and pledged their allegiance (...ʿindī mudhʿinīn muslimīn ilayya qāʾimīn …

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  16. 16State 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 …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت على الله

    2. كتب مملوك سيدنا القاضي الاجل المكين سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفياء

    3. قاضي القضـ]ـاة وداعي الدعاة علم المجد عمدة ا…

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  17. 17State documentENA 1177.78 + ENA 1177.77

    Five lines remaining of an official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. The …

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  18. 18State 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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  19. 19State 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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  20. 20State 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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  21. 21State 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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  22. 22State 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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  23. 23State documentT-S 13J8.27

    Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …

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    1. [              ] ولما وصل الارتفاع المتوج بالعلامة ا[لشريفة                                        ]
    2. [              ] على ظهر كتاب متولى الترت…
    1. [ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]

    2. [ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsoldi…

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  24. 24State documentT-S 12.821 + ENA 3682.5

    Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE. (Cited in Khan, BSOAS 53 (1990) 25; Arabic Legal and …

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]

    2. [صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا] 

    3. الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين …

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  25. 25State documentT-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57 + T-S AS 11.383 + T-S AS 146.195

    Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …

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    1. من طهارة ضمائرها ونقاء سرائر[ها           ]
    2. وصيالها على حراسة الاسلام والم[سلمي]ن [           ]
    3. الحوزة والدين وانتصابها وبذلها الاموال والذخائ…
    1. ... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [  ]

    2. and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…

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  26. 26State documentENA 1179.29

    Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …

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  27. 27LetterT-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + T-S AS 153.177 + T-S 18J5.3

    Letter/petition probably from ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen "the seventh" (the son-in-law of the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva, Evyatar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen) to "our rabbi …

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    1. ]מא

    2. ]אתר[ ]ה אשרח יסיר ממא

    3. שרחה סיידנא ראם אלמתיבה יסתירו

    4. אלהינו בסתר תכפיו פי כתאבה ממא

    5. קד בלגת אליה חאלתה ואנה קד

    6. בקי לק…

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  28. 28State 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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  29. 29State documentT-S AS 129.149 + T-S Ar.39.280 + T-S AS 116.11 + T-S NS 137.20 + T-S NS 207.44 + AIU I.C.73 + T-S NS 238.99 + T-S NS 244.84

    Report from a Fatimid official, probably sent from Tyre. Dating: 1108 or 1109 CE, as it concerns the events in Tripoli following the flight of …

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