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State document, in Arabic script. Decree of Shīrkūh, the vizier of al-ʿĀḍid, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. The caliph grants al-ʿĀḍid privileges to Macarius, …
- الحمد لله رب العالمين
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- منشور...مولانا سيدنا الامام العاضد لدين الله امير المؤمنين
- ...صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابن…
and when there was submitted to our presence a petition headed by the name of Macarius, bishop ofMount Sinai, and his monks, in which they stated that they had withdrawn to worship God, and follow in this a fixed habitand custom; and that they have rules established from the time of al-Ḥākim,and possess decrees by which this exalted ʿAlid empire as honoured them; and asked thatthese decrees be renewed-our order was issuedto include in this open decree our command to take care of them and our insistence to guard them, facilitate their business, treat themaccording to their custom, grant them the utmost respect they can wish for, help themto obtain what improves their condition and brings about the flourishing of their hopes and the gladdeningof their hearts, to look after them wherever they are, behave towards them in such a way as tobestow upon them bounties both new and old-established, treat them according to their privilegesso as to exempt them from dues newly imposed upon them by the governors of the fortresses of al-Ṭūr for themselves,during the exaction of which they [the monks] are vexed and on account of which they become poor; and that the traces of this be obliterated...;to prevent Bedouins from entering their monasteriesand grabbing the food which they acquire and hoard in order to entertain those who visit them;to treat them in respect to exemptions from taxes, dues, rents,sharing tithes and fiefs in accordance with the contents of the prophetical decreeswhich are in their possession; to prevent lest these decees should be changed or their contents explained away as to any particular;to protect all their companions and those employed on their businessor appointed to collect the rents of their endowments anddefend and treat well their hired men while they gather their crops;to keep away harm from those who come to them and hold back forcible hands from damaging those who visit them fromEgyptian provinces or whom they entrust to get them their food from nearand far lands, to prevent Bedouins and settled people from vexing them, and turn towards them so as to abolishtaxes newly introduced and hold back inimical hands.- Related People
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