Details
Details
Turki 1 continued (Erdal Doc. V)
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Physical Description
According to Erdal, the document was rolled up and pressed flat, then its ends were flattened and folded over.
13
ca. 11 horizontal + 2 vertical fold lines in the centre of the folio
Content
Fragment of a land sale document consisting of 13 witness statements. According to Erdal, this document has a preceding Arabic text which was available to another editor but was lost by the time Erdal was writing. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century, collected by Denison Ross, of which photos were kept at SOAS. Formally, these documents differ from the non-Muslim deeds of land sale in the collection, which according to Erdal follow Chinese models. Erdal used these photos while the whereabouts of the originals were (and remain) unknown. Provenance seems to be a garden outside Yarkand where the documents were found in 1911. For details, see Erdal’s article (see Publications).
Dates
- The Gregorian calendar: 1080- Sep-Oct (Estimated date range: 1080-09-25-1080-10-23)
- The Hijri calendar: Rabīʿ II 473 (Estimated date range: 0473-04-01-0473-04-29)
People
- Sulaymān
- ʿUthmān b. Nūrī
- Ḥasan b. Isma'īl (Master Ḥasan the scribe, son of Isma'īl)
- Abū Bakr
- ʿUthman b. Qara Sar
- ʿAlī b. İsḥaq
- Yūsuf
- Ḥasan
- Kächmish
- Muḥammad "the Blond One" (Master Muḥammad the Blond One)
- Abū Bakr (Abū Bakr, the younger brother of Kürläg Muḥammad)
- Yūsuf
- Baba Na'il
Publications
- Erdal, Marcel. "The Turkish Yarkand Documents." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 47/2, 1984. pp. 260-310 (Pages: 286-291, pl. VI)
Related Shelfmarks
IEDC Data
160
08/07/2024
24/02/2025
Citations
Mateen Arghandehpour
Arezou Azad
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