New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 75, recto
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Firuzkuh 75, recto
Afghanistan National Archives
Firuzkuh Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Petition

Physical Description

paper
Incomplete (top and bottom parts missing), black ink; verso reused, recto also reused
8

Content

Fragment of a petition in which a village administrator reports on a case of fraud committed by the muqaddams of another village. The continuation of the letter is missing. This side of the paper was reused with writing in between the first six lines by a different hand. 
 

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
None

People

  • ʿAlī b. Safar
  • Muḥammad Ghandmīnī
  • Jamāl al-Dawla wa al-Dīn

Publications

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IEDC Data

1164
26/01/2025
24/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
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Folios
1. recto
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Translation
Transcription
Folio:
زندگانی خداوند مولی  الانعام و [+ 1 امیر] 1
سپهسالار اجل کبیر موید مظفر منصور جمال  2
الدولة والدین ملک الامرا خرد [sic] الله ملک هو 3
 کمترین بندگان محمد غندمینی برای ملک 4
 اسلام (؟) عرضه می دارد کی مقدمان 5
 تگاب تاغ کی می بردند (؟) [+ 1] علی بن سفر مکر 6
دید کسان کی از اوشان مال معاملت  7
دو اسپ برد (؟) معیشت (؟) ایشان را باز داشته ام 8
Translation
Folio:
1 [May] the life of the beneficent [+ 1] lord, the 
2  illustrious, great, God-assisted, victorious and triumphant amīr, the sipahsālār, Jamāl
3  al-Dawla wal-Dīn, the king of amīrs, may God perpetuate his rule, [be long].
4  The lowliest of slaves, Muḥammad Ghandmīnī, petitions for the judgement of the king
5  of Islam (?) regarding the muqaddams of
6  Tagāb-i Tāgh who have taken [+ 1]. ʿAlī b. Safar has witnessed an act of fraud (?). 
7  Concerning some of those who took the value of two horses out of the transaction,
8  I have withheld their stipends.
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 75, recto: Folio (recto)
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