Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 32 [AR 19]
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DOC 32 [AR 19]
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
6.5

Content

Tax quittance for Qārwāl b. Mīr.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: March-April 774 (Estimated date range: 0774-03-23-0774-04-21)
  • The Hijri calendar: Jumādā I 157 (0157-05)

People

  • Qārwāl b. Mīr
  • Hishām b. Muḥammad
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb

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: 128-9)
    Catalogue Number: 19
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

54
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 هشام بن محمد عامل الامير محمد 2
بن حبيب حفظه الله على وسبا ورزم ومدر 3
للقاروال بن مير انك اديت الى مما صار 4
عليك فى قصر يسكن من خراج سنة سبع و 5
خمسين وماية وقسم شهر سنة سبع 6
وخمسين وماية ثلثة دراهم ودانق منها من 7
الخراج درهمين ودانق ومن القسم درهم 8
قبضت ذلك منك وبرئت الى منها 9
وكتب فى جمادى الاولى سنة سبع 10
وخمسين وماــــــــــــــــــــــــية 11
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a quittance from Hishām b. Muḥammad, the financial administrator of the governor Muḥammad
3 b. Ḥabīb, may God preserve him, (whose jurisdiction is) over Wasbā (?), Rizm and Madr,
4 to al-Qārwāl b. Mīr. You have delivered to me what you owe
5 in the citadel of Yaskin with regard to the kharāj for the year
6 one-hundred and fifty-seven, and the monthly portions of the year
7 one hundred and fifty-seven, three dirhams and one dānaq. Of these,
8 two dirhams and one dānaq are for the kharāj and one dirham is for the portions.
9 I have received that from you and you have been released from (the obligation to pay) them to me.
10 It has been written in Jumādā I of the year
11 one hundred and fifty-seven.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
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Circular impression. The impression of the seal is oblliterated.

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 32 [AR 19]: Folio (recto)
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