Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 29 [AR 9]
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DOC 29 [AR 9]
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 parchment, the writing surface shows fold lines.
6.7
7.7

Content

Tax quittance for Mīr b. Bēk

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 21 June 764 (0764-06-21)
  • The Hijri calendar: 11 Rabīʿ II 147 (0147-04-11)

People

  • Mīr b. Bēk
  • al-Ḥasan b. Warazān
  • Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh
  • Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā

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: 92-93)
    Catalogue Number: 1
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

57
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 من يوسف بن عبد الله 2
والحسن بن ورزان عمال الامير ابرهيم بن يحيى على كورة 3
الروب وسمنجان وبورا براة لمير بن بك البا 4
ميانى انا قبضنا منك من خراج سنة اربع وار 5
بعين ومية عشرة درهم ومن خراج سنة 6
خمس واربعين ومية عشرة درهم 7
وقد قبضنا منك ذلك وبرئت الينا منه 8
وكتب فى ربيع الاخرة سنة 9
سبعة واربعين ومية وكتب 10
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is a document from Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh
3 and al-Ḥasan b. Warazān, the financial administrators of the governor Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā, (whose jurisdiction is) over the district
4 of Rob, Samangān and ...., a quittance for Mīr b. Bēk al-Bāmiyānī,
5 We have received from you, the kharāj for the year
6 one hundred and forty-four, ten dirhams, and, the kharāj for the year
7 one hundred and forty-five, ten dirhams.
8 We have received that from you and you have become released from (the obligation to pay) it to us.
9 It has been written in Rabīʿ II of the year
10 one hundred and forty seven. It has been written.
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Seals
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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 29 [AR 9]: Folio (recto)
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