Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 43 [AR 10]
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DOC 43 [AR 10]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Receipt

Physical Description

parchment
fold lines
Written on light coloured parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
9.5
7.0

Content

Tax quittance for Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: April-May 769 (Estimated date range: 0769-04-17-0769-05-15)
  • The Hijri calendar: Rabīʿ II 152 AH (0152-04)

People

  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • Shuʿayb b. ʿAlwān
  • ʿUmar b. ʿĀrim

Publications

  • Khan, Geoffrey. 2007. Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan (Studies in the Khalili Collection Volume V). London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions. (Pages: 108-9)
    Catalogue Number: 9
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

30
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Transcription
Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذا كتاب 2
من شعيب بن علوان عامل الامير 3
عمر بن عارم اكرمه الله على مدر ورزم 4
براة لمير بن بيك انك اديت 5
الى مما صار عليك من خراج سنة 6
تسع واربعين ومية وخراج سنة 7
خمسين ومية وتوابعهما 8
من القسم ثلثة دراهم وثلثة 9
دونيق قبضت ذلك منك 10
وبرئت الى منها 11
وكتب فى ربيع الاخر سنة 12
اثنين وخمسين ومية 13
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document
3 from Shuʿayb b. ʿAlwān, the financial administrator of the governor
4 ʿUmar b. ʿĀrim, may God grant him honour, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and Rizm,
5 a quittance for Mīr b. Bēk. You have delivered
6 to me what you owe with regard to the kharāj of the year
7 one hundred and forty-nine and the kharāj of the year
8 one hundred and fifty, together with the portions that are linked to them,
9 three dirhams and three
10 dānaqs. I have received that from you
11 and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) them to me.
12 It has been written in Rabīʿ II of the year
13 one hundred and fifty-two.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

Seal inscribed with the name "Shuʿayb b. ʿAlwān".

شعيب بن علون

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 43 [AR 10]: Folio (recto)
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