THREE PETITIONS OF THE FĀṬIMID PERIOD
THREE PETITIONS OF THE FĀṬIMID PERIOD
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法伊玛王朝时期的三份请愿书
DOI:
10.1163/19606028_027_02-12
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发表时间:
1962
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S. M. Stern
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作者:
S. M. Stern
less limited to the collections of the Cambridge University Library, the Bodleian Library and the British Museum, and whereas I have made a systematic search through the fifty-one" Arabic Boxes" in Cambridge and believe that I know all the Fdtimid documents found there, all those familiar with the Geniza papers (consisting to a large extent of thousands and thousands of loose sheets of the most varied content and only superficially classified) will find it natural if I say that I am far from assuming that I have traced all the documents which may exist even in the libraries known to me, not to speak of those with which I am not personally acquainted. In addition it remains to be seen whether collections of other provenance, such as papers preserved in Vienna and elsewhere, do not also contain similar documents. I do not speak in this connection of the important documents of the monastery of St. Catherine's in Sinai, or the similar documents preserved in the Coptic Museum and the archive of the Karaite community in Cairo, since these decrees issued by the Fdtimid Chancery and preserved by the bodies to which they have been granted so many centuries ago, form a group which will hardly increase (at least considerably) by further discoveries.(This lot of documents, nine in number 1, will be published and discussed by me in a forthcoming volume entitled Fditimid Decrees.) It is quite different with collections derived from" archeological" sources, such as the Geniza and, possibly, excavations, and the writer would be grateful if scholars who have found in such collections documents of the type published in the following pages, would either publish them themselves or com-municate their discoveries to him.We can now proceed in medias res and consider, first, the documents themselves. The second part of our study will be devoted, as was said before, to a general investigation into the form of the petition in the Fdtimid period and its function in the administration of that empire.