Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 70
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Fragment of a letter confirming receipt of the recipient’s letter. The sender is inferior to the recipient and applies the standard politeness protocol required when writing to a superior.

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Firuzkuh 70
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Letter

Physical Description

paper
Incomplete (bottom part missing), black ink
7
horizontal

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 111-113)
    The IEDC transcription has been revised from this publication.

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IEDC Data

1157
24/01/2025
24/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
The transcription has been revised from a previous publication (see Publications), the translation is the original work of the IEDC Team (as yet unpublished in peer-review print)
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Folios
1. recto
Transcription
Folio:
            عمر محمد علی عبده 1
 الحمد لوليه 2
 مکتوب شریف آن بزرگوار رسید و خوانده شد 3
 و آنچ از لطف مردمیها یاد کرده بود معلوم گشت 4
 ازان خداوند بدیع نباشد ایزد تعالی از کل آفات 5
 و بلیات نگاه داراد بحق محمد و آله و خواجه 6
 پدر را خدمت ما برساند و جمال الدین عمر سلام  7
 [تحیت (؟) و فرزند (؟)] مسعود را سلام و ازین جانب 8
 [+ 5 بر]سانند 9
Translation
Folio:
1                 ʿUmar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, his slave.
2  Praise to the One who deserves it.
3  The distinguished letter of this noble one has arrived and been read,
4  and the acts of kindness he has reiterated are noted.
5  It is nothing new about this lord. May God almighty 
6  protect [you] from all troubles and calamities through Muḥammad and his family.
7  Please send our respects to [your] father, the khwāja. [Please also send our] greetings to Jamāl al-Dīn ʿUmar 
8  and to [your (?)] son, Masʿūd. From this side,
9  they will send [+/- 5] 
Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 70: Folio (recto)
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