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أحسن التقاسيم — المقدسي — p. 405

أحسن التقاسيم — المقدسي — ص 405

An excerpt from «أحسن التقاسيم — المقدسي» carrying a report of correspondence, a letter, epistle or reply in context; quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«حارث الطائفى قل سمعت عامرا الشعبى يقول كتب قير الى عمر بن الخطاب من قيصر ملك الروم الى عمر بن الخطاب اما بعد فان رسلى اخبرتنى ان قبلكم شجرة بابسة ليس خليقة من الشجر تخرج مثل آذان لحمير ثم تغلق»

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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)· Diwan al-Insha' (the chancery)· Diwan al-Khatim (the seal registry)· Insha' (creative speech, and its legal application)· The Letters to Rulers and Kings· Sunan Abi Dawud 1505 — Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr· Sunan Abi Dawud 155 — Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)· Sunan Abi Dawud 1600 — Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

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  • al-Muqaddasi, Ahsan al-taqasim fi ma'rifat al-aqalim, ed. M. J. de Goeje (Leiden: Brill, 1877), Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum III
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Diwan al-Barid (the postal diwan)

The postal diwan as Abu al-Faraj Qudama ibn Ja'far prescribes it in Kitab al-Kharaj wa-Sina'at al-Kitaba: a diwan unto itself receiving dispatches from every province and forwarding each to its destination, presenting the barid masters' reports from all regions to the caliph or composing their digests, overseeing the station-masters, timekeepers and clerks of the relay routes, disbursing their rations and commissioning the keepers of itineraries in every misr — its chief required to be a man of trust. Al-Qalqashandi's Subh al-a'sha traces the barid from the Persian and Roman emperors through Mu'awiya, Abd al-Malik and the Abbasids, its suspension by the Buyids, its revival by al-Zahir Baybars between Egypt and Syria and its collapse after Timur's invasion in 804 AH, and describes the engraved silver plaques couriers wore and the relay stations from the Cairo Citadel to Qus, Alexandria, Damietta, Gaza, Damascus and Aleppo.