Arabic Papyri : Selected Material from the Khalili Collection Book

	Foreword	5
	Acknowledgements	7
	Bibliography and abbreviations	11
	Introduction	23
	Script	27
	Accounts
1	List of villages in the al-Bahnasa region to which zakat had been distributed for the poor and needy	49
2	Account of the cultivated land in the district of Dalas and the villages of Ahnas on the basis of the annual survey, divided into the sum entered in the registers of disposition and the survey increase	57
3	Account relating to the lease of agricultural land indicating the rent for each faddan, the crops grown, the land category and the instalments paid	68
4	Account relating to the land tax arranged by cultivator	76
5	Account of rent on urban property	80
6	Account of expenditure from a Christian community in Northern Mesopotamia	84
7	Bill of lading	92
8	Merchant's ledger	95
	Legal Documents
9	Two quittances	99
10	Quittance for land tax	104
11	Receipt	108
12	Record of a testimony	112
13	Deed of lease of a shop	115
	Letters
14	Letter concerning the detention of the writer in a Delta village	121
15	Two letters sending greetings	129
16	Petition to an amir	136
17	Letter to a woman concerning the delivery and dispatch of various items	143
18	Letter from the amanuensis of a Tulunid official	151
19	Letter requesting a meeting with the addressee	160
20	Letter concerning various types of animals and crops together with the reply to it	165
21	Letter from a textile merchant	173
22	Letter to a weaver	178
23	Letter requesting the addressee to write an important message	182
24	Letter concerning family matters	187
25	Letter concerning the delivery of textiles	191
26	Letter requesting the delivery of money together with the reply to it	195
27	Letter concerning various business matters	201
28	Letter requesting the postponement of the payment of a debt together with the reply to it	209
29	Letter concerning family matters	215
30	Letter concerning the delivery of wheat	219
31	Letter requesting the addressee to make a delivery of money	222
32	Letter concerning the delivery of corn and other business matters	228
33	Letter concerning family matters	233
34	Letter requesting the payment of a debt	240
35	Letter complaining that the addressee had not kept the writer informed about a certain matter	243
36	Letter complaining that the addressee had not replied to previous communications to him by the writer	247
	List of papyri according to their edition number	254
	List of papyri according to their inventory number	255
	Indices