{"id":113,"date":"2018-10-11T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2019-05-03T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:08:51","slug":"sila","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/translations\/sila\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u012bla"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a medium-sized village, known as the village of Jacob, peace be upon him[1]<\/a>. It used to be a large city, and al-\u02bfIdwa, as well as all the villages in eastern Fayyum, were its hamlets (tu\u02bfraf bi-h\u0101<\/em>). It is even said that there were 40 churches in it, which are now all deserted. But then it became a medium-sized village. Wheat, barley and broad beans are sown in it, and it has date palms and trunks of acacia. It is three hours\u2019 ride from Mad\u012bnat al-Fayy\u016bm, towards the east.<\/p>\n

It is said that in the lands of this village there is a feddan known as \u2018the feddan of the Prophet Jacob\u2019, may peace be upon him, and this feddan yields 100 ardabbs. This feddan is unknown, but when it falls in a field (ghay\u1e6d<\/em>) through the division [of the village lands] (waqa\u02bfa bi\u2019l-qisma<\/em>), the field yields more than 100 ardabbs, or something like it.<\/p>\n

It is included in the iq\u1e6d\u0101\u02bf<\/em> of a group of iq\u1e6d\u0101\u02bf-holders. It gets 12 qab\u1e0das<\/em> of water, allocated solely for winter crops, from al-Sharqiyya Canal, by plastered divisors shared with Sh\u0101na, Bay\u0101\u1e0d, Maq\u1e6d\u016bl and al-Rubiyy\u0101t. Its fiscal value is 6,200 army dinars. It has a Congregational mosque, in which the Friday prayers are held, and it is said that this is the Mosque of Jacob, peace be upon him. It also has a white neighbourhood mosque, standing on a tall mound. It has one church, and south of it there is a monastery known as S\u012bla Monastery. Its people are the Ban\u016b Zar\u02bfa, a branch of the Ban\u016b Kil\u0101b.<\/p>\n

Its revenue in specie, collected in cash and kind, is 15 1\/2 dinars; and in grains, 2,500 ardabbs:<\/p>\n

wheat, 833 1\/3 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

barley, 1,666 2\/3 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

[The revenue] in detail:<\/p>\n

lunar-calendar revenues, 8 dinars;<\/p>\n

[permanent] pasture tax, 7 1\/2 dinars;<\/p>\n

Mun\u0101jaza<\/em> land-tax of grains, 2,500 ardabbs, as specified.<\/p>\n

The fees, the measurement fee and the pasture fee are 570 1\/2 1\/4 1\/8 dirhams, which are 13 1\/2 1\/4 1\/48 dinars; and in grains, 122 1\/2 1\/3 1\/16 ardabbs:<\/p>\n

wheat, 39 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

barley, 73 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

broad beans, 10 1\/2 1\/3 1\/16 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[The fees, the measurement fee and the pasture fee] in detail:<\/p>\n

the fees, 252 1\/2 1\/8 dirhams; and in grains, 68 1\/4 1\/48 ardabbs:<\/p>\n

wheat, 23 1\/2 1\/4 1\/8 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

barley, 33 1\/2 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

broad beans, 10 1\/2 1\/3 1\/16 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[The fees] in detail:<\/p>\n

supervision of endowments, 34 dirhams;<\/p>\n

dredging fee, 90 dirhams;<\/p>\n

harvest fee, 53 dirhams;<\/p>\n

protection fee, 15 dirhams;<\/p>\n

threshing-floor fee, 60 1\/2 1\/8 dirhams; and the grains.<\/p>\n

the measurement fee, 54 1\/2 1\/8 ardabbs:<\/p>\n

wheat, 15 1\/8 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

barley, 39 1\/2 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The pasture fee on seasonal pasture lands, for 597 heads, 318 1\/4 dirhams:<\/p>\n

at the rate of 100 dirhams per 100 [heads], for 36 heads, 36 dirhams;<\/p>\n

at the rate of 70 dirhams per 100 [heads], for 183 heads, 125 dirhams 1\/2 1\/4 1\/8;<\/p>\n

at the rate of 50 dirhams per 100 [heads], for 143 heads, 71 1\/2 dirhams;<\/p>\n

at the rate of 30 dirhams per 100 [heads], for 15 heads, 4 1\/2 dirhams;<\/p>\n

at the rate of 25 dirhams per 100 [heads], for 220 heads, 55 dirhams;<\/p>\n

the government agents\u2019 fee, 25 1\/4 1\/8 dirhams.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The alms-tax, for the monetary value of eight heads of livestock, 8 dinars:<\/p>\n

cows, for a yearling calf, 1 1\/8 dinar;<\/p>\n

monetary value of small cattle, for seven heads, 6 1\/2 1\/4 1\/8 dinars:<\/p>\n

sheep, for six heads: 6 1\/4 1\/8 dinars;<\/p>\n

goats, for one head: 1\/2 dinar.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The poll-tax, for 10 individuals, 20 dinars:<\/p>\n

those residing in it, for seven individuals, 14 dinars;<\/p>\n

those absent from it, in the southern region, for three individuals, 6 dinars.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hay, 2,500 bales.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The fee of the overseer of the canal, barley, 1\/2 ardabb.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the Ministry of Endowments, in specie, 17 dinars.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The seed advances customarily distributed in the locality, 318 ardabbs:<\/p>\n

wheat, 130 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

barley, 150 ardabbs;<\/p>\n

broad beans, 38 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The established levy on the cultivators in kishk<\/em> and far\u012bk<\/em> dishes, 3 ardabbs, half in each.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The allowances distributed in it, 4 feddans.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The chicken reared in it, 750 chickens:<\/p>\n

for the prosperous D\u012bw\u0101n, including the rearing wage, which is a third, 450 birds;<\/p>\n

for the iq\u1e6d\u0101\u02bf-holders, 300.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The barley assigned for the royal stables and paid for in advance, 320 ardabbs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Modern location: S\u012bla (\u0633\u064a\u0644\u0629). Halm, \u00c4gypten<\/em>, p.\u00a0269: Saila;\u00a0 Ramz\u012b, Al-Q\u0101m\u016bs<\/em>, ii\/iii, 101: S\u012bla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a medium-sized village, known as the village of Jacob, peace be upon him[1]. It used to be a large city, and al-\u02bfIdwa, as well as all the villages in eastern Fayyum, were its hamlets (tu\u02bfraf bi-h\u0101). It is even said that there were 40 churches in it, which are now all deserted. But […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}