Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 28 [AR 4]
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DOC 28 [AR 4]
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.
8.5
5.5

Content

Tax quittance for Bāb b. Bēk.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: January-February 771 (Estimated date range: 0771-01-27-0771-02-24)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 154 (0154-02)

People

  • Bāb b. Bēk
  • ʿUmar b. Marzūq
  • Shādh b. Saʿd

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: 120-1)
    Catalogue Number: 15
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

55
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 براة من عمر بن مرزوق 2
عامل الامير شاذى بن سعد على مدر ورزم براة لباب 3
بن بيك انك اديت الى مما صار عليك من خراج سنة احدى 4
وخمسين وخراج خمسين وخراج تسع وخراج ثمان 5
واربعين ومائة 6
وتوابعه من القسم اثنا عشر درهما قبضت 7
ذلك منك وبرئت الى منها وكتب فى صفر 8
سنة اربع وخمسين ومائة 9
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a quittance from ʿUmar b. Marzūq,
3 the financial administrator of the governor Shādhī b. Saʿd, (whose jurisdiction is) over Madr and Rizm, a quittance for Bāb
4 b. Bēk. You have delivered to me what you owe with regard to the kharāj for the year
5-6 (one hundred and) fifty-one, the kharāj (for the year one hundred and) fifty, the kharāj (for the year one hundred and forty) nine and the kharāj for the year one hundred and forty-eight,
7 and the portions that are linked to it, twelve 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 in Ṣafar
9 of the year one hundred and fifty-four.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Unknown

Single impression with a rectangular border. The impression on the seal is obliterated.

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 28 [AR 4]: Folio (recto)
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