Four Charity Documents

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer in Sub-department of Islamic Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology Ain shams University

Abstract

The study of Arab documents helped in clarifying economic, social, and personal aspects of life throughout ages. Various museums preserve numerous collections of documents and Arabic papyrus. This research aims at studying four documents of charity and retracting charity dating back to 685-687 AH / 1286-1288AD, preserved in Berlin Library. The reason for choosing this topic is that these documents were not fully published by Yūsuf Rāghib, Papyrus specialist, and the recent studies have not presented a detailed study on them.
Studying the documents of charity dated 685 AH / 1286AD revealed more about their forms and formulation in the 7th AH/ 13thAD century. The study also shed light on their contents and the subject of alms charity as well as their documentation by registering the names of the witnesses at their end of the page.

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