Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 19 [AR 1]
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DOC 19 [AR 1]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Tax receipts

Physical Description

parchment
fold lines
Written on dark brown parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
6.5
6.5

Content

Tax quittance for Qārwāl b. Mīr.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 774-775 (Estimated date range: 0774-0775)
  • The Hijri calendar: 158 (0158)

People

  • Qārwāl b. Mīr
  • Ḥamza
  • Naṣr b. al-Mufaḍḍal
  • Zāhirī

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: 134-135)
    Catalogue Number: 22
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

31
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذا براة من نصر بن المفضل وحمزة 2
عاملى الامير زاهرى اكرمه الله 3
للقاروال بن مير انك اديت 4
الينا ما صار عليك فى قصر 5
يسكن وغندر من قسم شهر سنة 6
ثمان وخمسين ومية 7
خمسة دونيق ونصف 8
قبضنا ذلك وبرئت [منها] الينا 9
فى سنة ثمان وخمسين ومية 10
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a quittance from Naṣr b. al-Mufaḍḍal and Ḥamza,
3 the financial administrators of the governor Zāhirī, may God grant him honour,
4 to al-Qārwāl b. Mīr. You have delivered
5 to us what you owe in the citadel
6 of Yaskin and Ghandar with regard to the monthly portions for the year
7 one hundred and fifty-eight,
8 five and a half dānaqs.
9 We have received that and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) them to us,
10 in the year one hundred and fifty-eight.
Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 19 [AR 1]: Folio (recto)
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