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Join: ENA 2385.20 + ENA 2385.21
ENA 2385.20
Recto/verso:
Section:
Two fragments of a Fatimid order/decree to a lower official. Mentions the caliph's estates (probably mentions its overseer). Repurposed as two folios for Hebrew liturgical text. Mentions appearing before the majlis al-khidma of the amīr Sayf al-Mulk Layth al-Dawla wa-Shujāʿuhā. . . the ṣanīʿa of the caliph, the military commander (mutawallī al-ḥarb). It is possible that there is a gap in the text between lines 3 and 4. The official in question could be al-Amīr al-Muẓaffar Sayf al-Mulk Maʿadd l-Mulk Layth al-Dawla ʿAlī b. Ishāq b. al-Sallār, who was the governor of Alexandria during the time of al- Ẓāfir, hence this document could be dated to that period, i.e., post 545/1150. (See al-Maqrīzī, al-ittiʿāz, pg. 196).
Ed. and trans. Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum, (in Arabic) (2022) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jkOLuPsk5KQrJhuFzpc6foWyqWH24fYHPD6nEY2_Qk4/edit.
Type: State document
