Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 15 [AR 23]
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DOC 15 [AR 23]
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 light coloured parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
8.0
6.0

Content

Tax quittance for Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: March-April 767 (Estimated date range: 0767-03-12-0767-04-09)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 150 (0150-02)

People

  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • Shihāb b. ʿAmr
  • Abū Ghālib b. al-Iṣbahbadh

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: 104-5)
    Catalogue Number: 7
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

36
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 من شهاب بن عمرو 2
عامل الامير ابى غالب بن الاصبهبذ 3
اعز الله نصره على مدر ورزم براة لمير بن 4
بك انى قبضت منك مما صار عليك 5
من خراج سنة ثمان واربعين ومية 6
عشرة دراهم قبضت ذلك منك 7
وبرئت الى منها وكتب فى صفر 8
سنة خمسين ومـــــــــــــــــــــــية 9
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document from Shihāb b. ʿAmr,
3 the financial administrator of the governor Abū Ghālib b. al-Iṣbahbadh,
4 may God strengthen his victory, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and Rizm, a quittance for Mīr b.
5 Bēk. I have received from you what you owe
6 with regard to the kharāj of the year one hundred and forty-eight
7 ten dirhams. I have received that from you
8 and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) them to me. It has been written in Sṭafar
9 of the year one hundred and fifty.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

Seal inscribed with the name "Shihāb lillāh".

شهاب للّه

  • inscription
  • brown
  • inscriptions
Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 15 [AR 23]: Folio (recto)
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