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Letter from a muqtaʿ praising his wakīl for informing the wālī that most of the sugar canes had been distributed among the peasants instead of …
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Legal document, but could also be a state document because of the various ʿalāʾim (registration marks) on the top of the document and the mention …
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Verso: Petition fragment in Arabic script. Four lines are partially preserved. The petitioners are requesting something to do with the qaṭīʿa and iqṭāʿ system, probably …
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Original use: Fragments of two lines from a state document, perhaps a decree or report. Includes the phrase "they desisted and returned to their fiefs" …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions "mā iqtaṭaʿa min X" and lists values corresponding to wheat and barley. The text on verso seems …
Petition or formal letter concerning an iqṭāʿ, which was subsequently torn, and a related record written on verso. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era, …
Recto: Upper part of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: 557 H. The petition is submitted in the dual, and is regarding an iqṭāʿ, or …
Report from a Fatimid chancery clerk concerning an iqṭāʿ. The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand). Dated: 520 AH = 1126/27 CE.
Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …
Decree in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved. Concerns an iqṭāʿ and dikes (jusūr), and irrigration. Mentions the overseer of the jusūr, …
الجزية(؟) الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ ]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد تجلبوهم(؟) بموظف الجسو…
Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت هذه الى حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل حسام الدولة ادام الله
عزه والمسموع من طيب اخباره والمنقول من جمل اثاره وما …
Petition or a report, from a group of people to al-ʿĀḍid (cf. formulae in T-S Ar.51.107). Mentions iqṭāʿāt and muqṭaʿīn, several place names, the ṣāḥib …
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابايه الطا]هرين وابنائه المنتظرين العبيد يقبلوا الارض وينهوا ان كان
نـ]ـصر الله واحسن عونه وتوفيقه قد سير فيهم منشور ووصلو…
State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …
والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها
ومولاي الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…
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State document originating from the Ayyubid administration in Damascus leading up to 644 AH = 1246/47 CE. The joins are not certain. The same Hebrew …
State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعم…
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 …
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
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Letter of appeal from a man, unknown location, to Musallam (or Musallama) Abū ʿAlī, the wakīl of Shams al-Dīn Ildakīz al-Birṭāsī, in Minyat Bāsik in …
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
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, …
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
India Book (IB) IV,61 (ח78). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb or Fustat/Cairo, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, probably in Alexandria. Dating: November …
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