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Ms.Heb.8333.36
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Internal correspondence
Zīr Damān (Zīr-i Damān)

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A memo sent by ʿAlī b. Najīb and Muḥammad b. Najīb to two shiḥna officers, informing them that a commander called Ḥādhiq has been dispatched as backup to help them recover the full tax payment of 90 donkey loads of grain and hay owed by peasants in the Zīrdamān Valley to the commander Sayf al-Dīn Najm al-Umarāʾ Qutluq Arslān Tegin (?) after the peasants expressed resistance and insisted that they would pay only 70 donkey loads.
 

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: January 1218 (1218-01)
  • The Hijri calendar: Dhū al-Qaʿda 614 (0614-11)

People

  • Ḥādhiq
  • Shujāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad [b.] Ḥasan (Shujāʿ al-Dīn Zayn al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. Ḥasan)
  • ʿAlī [b.] Najīb
  • Muḥammad [b.] Najīb
  • Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad
  • Sayf al-Dīn Qutluq Arslān Tegin [?]

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 18
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

78
02/12/2023
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folio:

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Amīr
Amīr
Bismillāh (including abbrev)
Muʿāmala
Muʿāmala
Muʿāmala

Agricultural Terms

Ghalla (grain)
Kāh (straw)

Documentation Terms

Ḥisāb/ḥisab
Ḥisāb/ḥisab

Measurement Units

Kharwār
Kharwār

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Amīr

Currencies and Denominations

Dāng/dāniq/danānīq (one-sixth)
Dīnār

Documentation Terms

Ḥisāb/ḥisab
Transcription
Folio:
                                    علی نجیب و محمد نجیب  1
... (؟)  2
شجاع‌الدین زین‌الرجال محمد حسن و اجل  3
رشیدالدین نجم‌الرجال محمد دام تاییدهما  4
سلام بخوانند و ارزومندی شناسند و بدانند کی  5
نود خروار غله از معامله درۀ زیردمان (؟)  6
در وجه امیر سیف‌الدین نجم‌الامرا قتلق ارسلان  7
تکین دام تاییده در حساب ایشان مجری  8
شده است و نود خروار کاه اکنون  9
می‌کویند کی هفتاد خروار بیش ندهیم  10
معامله نباشد درین وقت معتمد امیر  11
حاذق را فرستاده شد تا نود خروار  12
غله و نود خروار کاه با او معامله برون برند و بهیج  13
عذری مشغول نکردند و اکر عذری  14
[+/- 3] حساب  15
سی سه دینار دو دانک سیم از بهاء  1
درازگوش شجاع‌الدین امیر حاذق را  2
دهد حسب شود فی ذی‌القعده سنه  3
اربع عشر ستمائه              کتب علی نجیب  4
Translation
Folio:
1  ʿAlī b. Najīb and Muḥammad b. Najīb
2  [Bismillāh?]
3  Shujāʿ al-Dīn Zayn al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. Ḥasan, and the most illustrious
4  Rashīd al-Dīn Najm al-Rijāl Muḥammad, may their power endure,
5  receive my greetings, know [my] longing [to see them], and take note that
6  in the tax assessment for Zīrdamān Valley, 90 donkey loads of grain have been allocated to
7  the amīr Sayf al-Dīn Najm al-Umarāʾ Qutluq Arslān
8  Tegin, may his power endure,
9  as well as 90 donkey loads of straw. Now
10  [the peasants of Zīrdamān] are saying, ‘We will not give more than 70 donkey loads.
11  [Otherwise,] there will be no tax assessment.’ At this moment, the trustworthy commander
12  Ḥādhiq has been sent so that 90 donkey loads
13  of grain and 90 donkey loads of hay can [be retrieved to] comply with the tax assessment, and 
14  so that no obstacle may come [in its way]. And if an obstacle
15  [+/− 3] account.
1  Shujāʿ al-Dīn should pay 33 dinars and 2 dāngs of silver
2  for the value of the donkey to the trustworthy commander [Ḥādhiq].
3  It shall be accounted for. In Dhū al-Qaʿda in the year
4 614, written by ʿAlī b. Najīb.
New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.36: Folio (recto)
New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.36: Folio (verso)
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