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Report from Tyre to the chancery of al-Malik al-Afḍal concerning military and administrative affairs on the coast of Palestine, dating probably to 1108 CE. Same …
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State document, internal report, in Arabic script. The sender may be Yaḥyā b. Ḥāmid(?) b. Sālim. The addressee is a qāḍī (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-qaḍāʾiyya). Dating: …
Fragment of a Fatimid official report, apparently referring to plunder taken from Crusaders. Wide line spacing. The end of one line is preserved: "[...] two …
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Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
Fatimid state document. Report to al-Malik al-Afḍal from al-thaghr al-maḥrūs (probably Tyre). Ca. 1108 CE. Related fragments are as follows (the clusters are defined based …
Official report in Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions jihād and a general (al-amīr al-isfahsalār), probably in the context of the …
Report from the period of al-Afḍal, probably. In Arabic script. Nine lines from the middle of the report are nearly completely preserved. Sent from a …
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
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 …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
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Report from a Fatimid official, probably sent from Tyre. Dating: most likely 1109 CE (1108 CE possible but less likely). Written on a rotulus, estimated …