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State documentT-S Misc.22.286
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
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LetterT-S AS 183.254
Petition, or petition-like letter. From a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved.
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Legal documentT-S Ar.51.106
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 …
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والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها
ومولاى الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…
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State documentENA NS 77.200
Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.
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State documentT-S Ar.39.493
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script, in a Fatimid chancery hand, with huge space between the lines. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...ʿalā yadih …
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State documentT-S Ar.38.13
Probably a petition, but possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes phrases such as "as your [excellency] …
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LetterENA 4020.5
The widow of Hiyya, a well known Fustat judge active 1129-1160s, wrote this expressive Hebrew petition to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. Her father was …
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LetterENA 2540.1
Letter of petition to Sa'adya the great prince - probably the father of Mevorakh b. Sa'adya. The writer complains that he and his family are …
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LetterT-S NS 264.74
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment, only the first few lines are preserved. Calligraphic and formal style. Probably the beginning of a letter of appeal.
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State documentT-S Ar.35.126
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
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LetterT-S NS J88
Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …
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- יא סידנא רייס אליהוד
- לא תסאל מא נחן פיה
- מן עבד אלעזיז אלעאדה
- אלדי תערפהא מנה מא
- תגיירת ירמי להא אלכב[ז
- וחדה ואלפלוס תבקא חאירה
- עלי מן ישתרי ל…
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State documentENA 2808.56
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
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State documentT-S Ar.20.21
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioners complain to the authorities that a certain person is corrupting their religious status quo (niẓām) and …
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State documentT-S NS 111.63
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a …
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State documentT-S AS 150.2
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Contains phrases such as: "wa-l-kashf ʿammā . . . al-sharīfa …
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State documentT-S 12.1 + T-S B12.39
Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
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عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسين…
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State documentT-S Ar.42.94
State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …
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الناصرية
خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش
بن احمد
بسم الله ال…
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State documentT-S Ar.39.219
End of a petition in Arabic script. Asking for permission to enter Egypt on behalf of a group of people. In a different hand, there …
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LetterENA 1628.35
Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early …
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LetterT-S Ar.42.13
Letter/petition in Arabic script. The tarjama containing the name of the sender at upper left seems to have been deliberately torn away; the remainder of …
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State documentJRL Gaster ar. 372
Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
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State documentT-S AS 111.37
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
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LetterT-S NS J591
Letter/petition to a certain Net[an'el]. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains; mentions household items (ḥawā'ij al-bayt) and the writer's shame.
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State documentT-S Ar.51.107
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
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- المملوك
- أبو عبد الله بن يحيى الفران بمصر
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا
- الإم…
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The slave
Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
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State documentT-S Ar.42.200
State document, in Arabic script. Petition, Mamlūk era.
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State documentT-S NS 305.23
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Approximately 5 fragmentary lines are preserved both on recto and on verso. Recto refers to Dīwān al-Mufrad al-Khāṣṣ, possibly …
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State documentT-S 13J36.12
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The specific request is hard to make out, perhaps for government employment. Needs further examination.
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State documentT-S NS 327.131
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. From ʿAlam(?) b. Muslim, Muʿammar b. Ibrāhīm, and Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm al-Najjār. Opens with blessings for the caliph …
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State documentT-S AS 218.155
Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
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State documentT-S NS 305.19
Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …
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- ولمولاي الامير الجـ[ليل
- فيما يامر به الـ[ـالراي الاعلى
- والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله[على سيدنا محمد واله وسلم تسليما]
- [وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل]
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State documentENA 3935.4
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
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State 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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State documentT-S Misc.11.221
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة…
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State documentT-S Ar.35.368
Draft of a petition, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the sender(s) appear: …
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State documentENA 1487.71
Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …
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State documentT-S 6J1.16
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition from the group/community/tribe of Banū al-Thimāl(?). Only the opening blessings for the caliph are preserved. Someone has re-copied …
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- العبيد المماليك
- جماعة بني الثمال
- [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
- صلوات الله ونوامي زكواته] وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا
- وسيدنا الامام …
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LetterT-S 10J12.13
Petition. Calligraphic letter with wide line-spacing in which the writer asks the recipient, whom he addresses as 'my father,' for support, emphasizing that his poor …
- ונחנא מקלין מן אחואלנא אלדי נחנא פיהא [ . . . . . . . .
- אלגלה אן מא ענדנא קמחה [[פ]] וקד גאת הדה אלנובה פזאדת
- עילנא אופא [[עטים]] ממא ענדנא מן אלקלה…
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LetterT-S 10J17.28 + T-S AS 151.30
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen Segan ha-Kohanim. In Hebrew. Containing greetings and an apparent request for charity. The letter is written in the same hand …
- אברכה את ייי בכל עת תמיד תהלתו בפי
- בייי תהלל נפשי ישמעו ענוים וישמחו
- פודה ייי נפש עבדיו ולא יאשמו כל החוסים בו
- חונה מלאך ייי סביב ליריאיו ויחלצם
- חזק…
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LetterENA NS 2.18
Letter addressed to a 'Sar ha-Leviim,' asking him to help his son, who is imprisoned in Cairo for a debt. Fifteen dirhams had been pledged, …
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- כאדם חצרה אלמולא שר הלויים אדאם אללה
- סעאדתהא ואחסן עאקבתהא וינהי אלי
- מגלסהא אן קד כתר תקלתה עליהא לא כאן
- אללה אלעאלם מא א[. . . . . .]תק[.]לה כ…
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State documentT-S AS 152.63
Verso (original use): Fragment from the upper left corner of a petition or official letter in Arabic script. ASE
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- بسم]الله الرحمن الرحيم
- المملوك يقبل الا]رض امام المجلس
- ]الاجلي المولوي
- ]الدين
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State documentT-S 10J9.4
State document. Response to an endorsement on a petition. A multi-handed internal memorandum. Contains endorsements or minutes (or clerks' notes) that haven't yet been deciphered; …
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- والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلم تسليما]
- العبد المملوك
- …… بن فتح
- امتثل المرسوم فى التوقيع العالى زاده …
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LetterT-S 8J27.3
Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …
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- [. . . . . . . ] חצרה אלאגליה ואן ע [ . . . . . . . . ]
- [. . . . . . . ] לם אבדל לא עיד ולא סבת
- [. . . . . . . ] אן אמות פי מדהב ישראל ופ [ . …
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State documentT-S NS 134.34
Either or a petition or a letter of gratitude for the caliph's favorable response to a prior petition. In Arabic script. The ends of approximately …
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LetterT-S 13J20.4
Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …
- בש רח
- והיה מעשה הצדקה שלום ועבודת הצ וג
- אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי ג
- אללה תעאלי דכרה יסתגיב פי מולאי אלשיך אלאגל
- צאלח אלאדעיה ויאריך ימיו …
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In (your) n(ame, O) Me(rciful)
"For the work of charity shall be peace, and the effect of ch(arity, calm and confidence forever)" (Isaiah 32:1…
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LetterT-S 10J14.18
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
- פתחו שערים ויבא גוי צדיק שומר אמונים:
- ויהי ייי משגב לדך משגב לעתות בצרה:
- רודף צדקה וחסד ימצא חיים צדקה וכבוד:
- קראו לפתחי תום ושערי רחמים יפי מגוריכם…
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LetterT-S 10J17.29
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen. Contains initial greetings, a request for assistance, a congratulations on recovering from an illness, and wishes for the forthcoming high …
- עזרי מעם ייי עושה שמים וארץ
- ויהי דויד לכל דרכיו משכיל וייי עמו
- חזקו ויאמץ לבבכם כל המיחלים //לייי//
- אשרי משכיל על דל וג ימלטיהו ייי
- מלוה ייי חונן דל…
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LetterT-S 12.354
Letter from X b. Menahem to Elazar ha-Kohen b. Meshullam asking for assistance after losing 350 nasiri and 25 dinars at sea. (Information from Goitein's …
- ראש אדונינו ונזר ראשינו ועטרת תפארתינו נחל
- . . . . . . ]ן התכונה נר ישראל אור מזרח ונר מערב
- מ]עין המתגבר יריח ברום עולם ומשוש חתנ [ . .
- תפ[אר]ת ישור…
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LetterPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.18 (Michaelides 19)
Petition from the Mamluk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Un esclave mamelouk demandant à son ancienne maitresse de retourner dans sa première maison" …
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Unknown typePUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.22b (Michaelides 23)
Petiton from some students at al-Azhar against a landowner. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte des etudiants d'El Azhar au Waliʹ" ; on a …
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State documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.31 (Michaelides 31)
Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter …
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