Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 27 [AR 30]
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DOC 27 [AR 30]
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-colored parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
8.0
7.5

Content

Tax quittance for Mīr b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: January-February 776 (Estimated date range: 0776-01-17-0776-02-15)
  • The Hijri calendar: Dhū al-Ḥijja 148 (0148-12)

People

  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • Sulaymān b. Saʿīd
  • al-Qaʿqāʿ b. Salīm

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: 98-99)
    Catalogue Number: 4
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

41
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذه براة من سليمن بن سعيد 2
عامل الامير القعقاع بن سليم 3
اعز الله نصره على مدر ورزم 4
لمير بن بك انى قبضت منك 5
مما صار عليك من خراج سنة 6
سبع واربعين ومــــــــــــــــية 7
عشرة دراهم قبضـــــــــــــت 8
ذلك منك وبرئت الى منها و 9
كتب فى ذو الحجة سنة ثمان 10
واربعين ومــــــــــــــــــية 11
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a quittance from Sulaymān b. Saʿīd,
3 the financial administrator of the governor al-Qaʿqāʿ b. Salīm,
4 may God strengthen his victory, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and Rizm,
5 to Mīr b. Bēk. I have received from you
6 what you owe with regard to the kharāj for the year
7 one hundred and forty-seven
8 ten dirhams. I have received
9 that from you and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) it to me.
10 It has been written in Dhū al-Ḥijja of the year
11 one hundred and forty-eight.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

Seal inscribed with the name "Sulayman Saʿd".

سليمن سعد

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  • brown
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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 27 [AR 30]: Folio (recto)
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