Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 12
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A fragment of land sale deed concerning 10 parcels of mountain land in the village of Tufandī near Ghandamīn (present-day Ghalmīn?). The format is standard for contemporary land sale deeds written in the region (see, e.g., Khalili 37, Khalili 38).
 

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Firuzkuh 12
Afghanistan National Archives
Firuzkuh Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Sale

Physical Description

paper
unknown number of fold lines (perhaps a rotulus), incomplete (only about the first quarter or third is extant), black ink;

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Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 40-41)
    The IEDC transcription has been revised from this publication.

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IEDC Data

258
18/10/2024
25/02/2025

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Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Majid Montazermahdi, 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revised from a previous publication (see Publications), the translation is the original work of the IEDC Team (as yet unpublished in peer-review print)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
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Folio:

Administrative

decree
document
sale

Legal terms

Acknowledgement
Legal formula
of their own volition and without coercion

Officials titles and offices

Imām
Khwāja

Topographical Features

mountain
province
village
Transcription
Folio:
    بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم  1
    این ذکریست که نبشته آمد از اقرار و رضا و فرمان  2
    علی بن محمد بن سفرسیش از ولایت غندمین از قریه تفندی  3
    اقرار درست و شرعی بطوع و رغبت بی کرهی و جبری  4
    کی اقرار را فاسد کند بر انجمله کی بفروخت ده  5
    قطعه کوه کی ویرا بود در قریه تفندی به خواجه  6
    امام اجل عالم بارع متقی شرف الحاج و الحرمین اوحد  7
    [-/+ 1] محمد بن محمد خایشی را با چهار حد تمام  8
    باسمهای معروف کوه اول را بنام دیو گویند  9
    حد اول تیغ قولَیْ حد الثانی ورثان یعقوب سفرسیس 10
    حد الثالث هم ورثان یعقوب حد الرابع  [+ 1]  11
    بن عثمان سفرسیش کوه دوام نو یاستیی[؟] دلمی[؟] حد اول  12
    کوه امیر اختیار الدین ابو بکر بن احمد حد الثانی ورثان  13
    یعقوب حد الثالث هم ورثان یعقوب حد ... 
  14
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the merciful and the compassionate.
2 This is a document that has been written based on the acknowledgement, agreement and request of
3 ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Safarsīsh from the region of Ghandamīn, from the village of Tufandī. 
4 [This is] a valid and lawful acknowledgement, [made] wilfully and of his own volition and without coercion or force,
5 which would invalidate the acknowledgement. [He has acknowledged] the following: He has sold ten
6 parcels of mountain land which he owned in the village of Tufandī, to the khwāja, the
7 illustrious imām, the excellent and pious ʿālim, the pride of the pilgrims and the Two Shrines [of Mecca and Medina], the singular
8 [+/- 1] Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Khāyishī. [Each of the ten parcels has] four complete boundaries with
9 known names. The first mountain is called Dīw, [and]
10 its first boundary is Taygh-i Qūlay; the second boundary is [adjacent to the estate] of Yaʿqūb [b.] Safarsīsh’s heirs;
11 the third boundary [is] also [adjacent to the estate] of Yaʿqūb’s heirs; the fourth boundary is [adjacent to] [+ 1]
12 b. ʿUthmān [b.] Safarsīsh[‘s land]. The second mountain is Naw-i Yāstay-i[?] Dalmī[?], [and] its first boundary is
13 the mountain land belonging to amīr Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. Aḥmad; its second boundary [is adjacent to the estate of]
14 Yaʿqūb’s heirs; the third boundary [is] also [adjacent to the estate] of Yaʿqūb’s heirs; the fourth boundary …
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Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 12: Folio (recto)
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