New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.112, verso
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Ms.Heb.8333.112, verso
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Receipt
Sūya (Shūya, Sūba) (Kūtal-i Ṣūba)

Physical Description

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Content

A note written by the anbār-dār ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr recording a tax credit  of 50 mann paid by the shiḥna officer Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd for the village of Sūya, to be paid back at a later date.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: November-December 1217 (Estimated date range: 1217-11-10-1217-12-08)
  • The Hijri calendar: Shaʿbān 614 (0614-08)

People

  • Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd
  • ʿAlī b. Abū Bakr

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 8
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

88
14/01/2024
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Arash Zeini, Majid Montazermahdi, Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folio:

Documentation Terms

Qabāla

Measurement Units

Mann
Māl
Transcription
Folio:
قباله پنجاه من بود [+ 2] جمال‌ الدین محمد محمود از دیه سویه  1
وجوه ان داد چون برسد مال باز داده شود 2
فی شعبان سنه اربع عشر و ستمانه 3
                                علی ابوبکر 4
ازین مبلغ سی سه من 5
تسلیم کرد 6
Translation
Folio:
1  [This] is a qabāla for 50 mann. [+ 2] Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd has covered the funds [of tax owed] by the village of Sūya.
2  As soon as the tax is delivered, it must be returned [to Jamāl al-Dīn].
3  In Shaʿbān of the year 614.
4                              ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr
5-6 Out of this amount, 33 mann have been delivered.
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