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TWO NEW MAMLUK DECREES FROM KHALID B. AL-WALID MOSQUE IN HOMS (865/909 AH.) (1460/1499 AD.): A STUDY IN THE TENOR
This paper sheds light on two unpublished Mamluk decrees inscribed in Khalid b. al-Walid Mosque in Homs before rebuilding the Mosque in the late Turkish period. Despite the disappearance of these inscriptions, the German orientalist \"Ernst Herzfeld\" pho-tographed and preserved them in glass plate negatives in his archive, which were recently published on the internet by the Freer/ Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The first decree dated in (865 AH./ 1460 AD.) It abolished fees on tanneries, dye houses, slaughterhouses, threshing floors, trading emporiums (khan, al-wakala), and the crossing of merchants on the roads of Homs. The second decree dated in (909 A.H/1499 A.D). It abolished fees, levies, taxes, and confiscations from the people of Homs, such as the financial obligation of the envoy of glad tidings of the Nile, the levy of barley, and the price of a camel paid by farmers to Bedouins but enforced fees on the textile industry, introducing fees on the Turkmen, confiscation the arrears of the endowment of el-Nuri Mosque every year, and the gifts dedicated to the ruler by dhimmis and porters. The decree forbade taking money from the vegetable farmers to repair the Canal of Mujahidiyya î-aÇAI ¿áLA, and the displacement of the people from Homs as well.
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The Fifth Mīl from Jerusalem: Another Umayyad Milestone from Southern Bilād Al-shām
In 1958 an Arabic inscription written in monumental angular script was found in the woods next to Aqua Bella-'Ayn Hemed, on the road between Jerusalem and the coast. The inscription was misfiled in the archives of the Israel Antiquities Authority, remaining unknown to the public for almost fifty years. Following a thorough search of the archives during doctoral research, the author found the original documentation relating to the long-forgotten inscription. The fragmentary inscription is incised into a marble slab, of which only the end of the last three lines remains. The surviving words are in line with the formula found on other milestones dated to the Umayyad period, allowing a reconstruction of the last sentence, and even of the missing upper parts of the inscription. The lines read: \"From Jerusalem to this milestone, five miles\".
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A Bronze Weight of Saʿîd b. ʿAbd al-Malik from Bet Shean/Baysân
This paper presents a unique bronze weight manufactured
by the order of a little-known son of [ain]Abd
al-Malik, who was governor of Jund Filastîn for a
short period. The weight, of the Byzantine disc
type, but bearing Arabic inscriptions, was found in
the excavations carried out by the Institute of
Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
1990. It is discussed here in the context of other
metal weights of the period which bear Arabic
inscriptions but are of Byzantine form, and which
sometimes also bear Byzantine symbols and Greek
inscriptions.
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The estates of ‘Amr b. al-‘āṣ in Palestine: notes on a new Negev Arabic inscription
The inscription recently found in the Negev (see Y. D. Nevo, ‘A new Negev Arabic inscription’, p. 18 above) mentions one Hakim b. Abī Asmā', a mawlā of ‘Abdallāh b. 'Amr b. al-‘Āṣ. No reference to a person called Ḣakīm b. Abī Asmā could be found in any other source, literary or archaeological, for the early Islamic period. His master, ‘Abdallāh b. ‘Amr b. al-‘Āṣ, is presumably the famous scholar, son of the conqueror of Palestine and Egypt, who was from the Quraysh clan of Banū Sahm. There is a considerable amount of evidence linking both father and son to Palestine
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