New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.93
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Ms.Heb.8333.93
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Order of payment (or other)
Shawāniq

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Content

An order issued by the diwan official ʿUmar to Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar to pay 5 donkey loads of wheat to ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Khurūsh via an intermediary and to credit the amount to the seed account of the village of Shawāniq, which belongs to or is administered by the sipahsālār Zangī.

 

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 25 March 1174 (1174-03-25)
  • The Hijri calendar: 12 Shaʿbān 569 (0569-08-12)

People

  • ʿUmar
  • ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Khurūsh
  • Sharaf al-Ḥujjāb Amīn al-Dīn
  • Kamāl al-Dīn
  • Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar
  • Zangī

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 10
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

62
02/12/2023
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Dīwān
Naqīb
Sipahsālār
Tafṣīl (itemisation)
Wajh/wujūh (in account/payment of)

Agricultural Terms

Gandum (wheat)

Documentation Terms

Nishān

Markings

Tanṣīf (half-amount stroke above written out number)

Measurement Units

Kharwār
Transcription
Folio:
              الدیوان العالی 1
 العزه لله وحده                 عمر 2
 نقیب معتمد الملک ابوبکر دام عزه برساند 3
 در وجه تخم دیه شوانق داشت سفاه‌سالار 4
 زنکی بعلی محمد خروش در رسالت شرف الحجاب 5
 امین الدین ادام الله نعمته و بر حکم تفصیل کمال 6
 الدین عارض دام عزه و در غیبت وی 7
                                     کندم 8
 نصفه (؟) ... (؟)                     بنج خروار 9
 اعتماد بر نشان بود فی الثانی عشره من شعبان سنه تسع و ستین خمس‌مائه 10
Translation
Folio:
1  The high diwan
2  Glory is to God alone             ʿUmar
3  The naqīb-i muʿtamid al-mulk Abū Bakr, may his glory endure, shall hand over
4  seed to the credit of Shawāniq village belonging to (dāsht-i) the sipahsālār 
5  Zangī to ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Khurūsh via the envoy Sharaf al-Ḥujjāb
6  Amīn al-Dīn, may God extend his well-being, and in accordance with the list [of rates set] (bar ḥukm-i tafṣīl) by the inspector (ʿāriḍ) Kamāl
7  al-Dīn, may his glory endure, and during his absence:
8                                                      wheat
9  [half-amount:] two and a half (?)          five donkey loads
10  He should trust the signet (nishān). On 12 Shaʿbān of the year 569.
New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.93: Folio (recto)
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