Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 31 [AR 2]
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DOC 31 [AR 2]
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.
7.5
7.5

Content

Tax quittance for Meham al-Bāmiyānī.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: May 770 (Estimated date range: 0770-05-06-0770-06-04)
  • The Hijri calendar: Jumādā I 153 (0153-05)

People

  • Meham al-Bāmiyāni
  • al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbdallāh
  • ʿAbdallāh b. al-Jarūd

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: 136-7)
    Catalogue Number: 23
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

52
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 الحرث بن عبد الله عامل 2
الامير عبد الله بن الجرود على مدر و 3
رزم لمهم الباميانى انك اديت 4
الى مما صار عليك من خراج سنة 5
ثمان وتسع وخمسين وحدى وخمسين ومائة 6
وتوابعه من القسم درهمين قبضت 7
ذلك منك وبرئت الى منها وكتب 8
فى جمادى الاولة فى سنة 9
ثلث وخمسين ومائة 10
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a quittance from al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbdallāh, the financial administrator
3 of the governor ʿAbdallāh b. al-Jarūd, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and
4 Rizm, to Meham al-Bāmiyānī. You have delivered
5 to me what you owe with regard to kharāj for the year
6 one hundred and (forty-)eight, (forty-)nine, fifty and fifty-one,
7 and the portions that are linked to it, two dirhams. I have received
8 that from you and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) them to me. It has been written
9 in Jumādā I of the year
10 one hundred and fifty-three.
Seals
Seal 1
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Inscribed

Inscribed with the name "Al-Ḥārith b. ʿAbdallāh".

ال[ح]ارث بن عبد اللّه

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 31 [AR 2]: Folio (recto)
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