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Corpus
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
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رسحر مں (؟)
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pasted into Mirza Khwaja Muhammad’s notebook
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 19
Fragment of a legal document, probably formed as an acknowledgement deed, concerning inheritance (mīrāth).
IEDC ID
1221
Type
Legal (Document)
Number of Folios
1
IEDC Input Date
02 Feb 2025
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 99
Fragment of a possible practice sheet of a letter.
IEDC ID
1236
Type
Paraliterary (Literature)
Number of Folios
1
IEDC Input Date
14 Apr 2025
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
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