Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 33 [AR 32]
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DOC 33 [AR 32]
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
staining
Written on light-colored parchment with staining and ink smudges in places.
10.0
7.5

Content

Tax quittance for Bāb b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: July-August 768 (Estimated date range: 0768-07-20-0768-08-18)
  • The Hijri calendar: Rajab 151 (0151-07)

People

  • Bāb b. Bēk
  • ʿAmr b. Marzūq
  • Khālid b. Shaybān

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: 114-115)
    Catalogue Number: 12
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

45
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
هذا كتاب 2
من عمرو بن مرزوق عامل الامير 3
خلد بن شيبان اكرمه الله على مدر 4
ورزم براة لباب بن بيك 5
انك اديت مما صار عليك 6
من خراج سنة تسع واربعين 7
ومية والقسمة التى تجرى 8
معها اثنا عشر درهما ودانق 9
وثلثة اجزا دانق قبضت 10
ذلك منك وبرئت 11
الى منها وكتب فى رجب 12
سنة احدى وخمسين ومية 13
...د الينا من واب بن بك 14
ضريبة كرم 15
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document
3 from ʿAmr b. Marzūq, the financial administrator of the governor
4 Khālid b. Shaybān, may God grant him honour, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr
5 and Rizm, a quittance for Bāb b. Bēk.
6 You have delivered what you owe
7 with regard to the kharāj for the year one hundred and forty-nine
8 and the portion that is administered
9 with it, twelve dirhams and a dānaq
10 and three parts of a dānaq. I have received
11 that from you and you have been released
12 from (the obligation to pay) them to me. It has been written in Rajab
13 of the year one hundred and fifty-one.
14 ..... to us from Bāb b. Bēk
15 orchard tax.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Unknown

The impression on the seal is obliterated.

Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 33 [AR 32]: Folio (recto)
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