{"id":119,"date":"2018-10-11T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T09:23:11","slug":"minyat-al-usquf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/translations\/minyat-al-usquf\/","title":{"rendered":"Minyat al-Usquf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minyat al-Usquf. <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> This is a small village, on the bank of the Main Canal, to its west. Its houses are within orchards,<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> and it is surrounded by date palms and trees. Its orchards contain various fruits such as apricots, grapes, pears, carobs, citrus fruits like bitter orange and lemon, quinces and pomegranates. It is a short journey from Mad\u012bnat al-Fayy\u016bm. It is assigned as an iq\u1e6d\u0101\u02bf to the amir \u02bfIzz al-D\u012bn Khi\u1e0dr ibn Mu\u1e25ammad al-K\u012bk\u0101n\u012b and his brothers, with a fiscal value of 1,500 army dinars. It gets its water, during the period of the high Nile, from a canal known as Aqn\u0101, designated for its irrigation and the irrigation of B\u0101ja. Its protection is at the hands of the Ban\u016b Zar\u02bfa, a branch of the Ban\u016b Kil\u0101b. It has a church.<\/p>\n<p>Its revenue in cash, in specie, is 229 1\/2 1\/8 dinars:<\/p>\n<p>lunar-calendar tax, 13 dinars:<\/p>\n<p>the tannery, 7 dinars;<\/p>\n<p>the weavers, 6 dinars;<\/p>\n<p>land-tax on orchards, 216 1\/2 1\/8 dinars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The protection fee, 15 dirhams, which are 1\/4 1\/8 dinar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The alms-tax, for the estimate of the date palms, 4 1\/2 1\/4 dinars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poll-tax, for 56 individuals, 112 dinars:<\/p>\n<p>those residing in it, for 47 individuals, 94 dinars;<\/p>\n<p>those absent from it, in the northern region, for nine individuals, 18 dinars.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its people rear chickens assigned for the royal kitchens, including the rearing wage, which is a third, 300 chickens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Modern location (uncertain): the eastern part of the city, near the central train station. Timm, <em>Das Christlich-Koptische \u00c4gypten,<\/em> pp.\u00a01666\u20137; Halm, <em>\u00c4gypten<\/em>, p.\u00a0271: \u02beUsquf\/S\u0101qiyat al-Qummu\u1e63;\u00a0 Ramz\u012b, <em>Al-Q\u0101m\u016bs<\/em>, i, 273; 428: \u02bfIzbat al-\u02bfAqrab. We could not find this \u02bfIzba \u2014 probably because, as noted by Ramz\u012b, it has been overtaken by the expending city. Timm notes, however (p.\u00a01667), that it was close to the location of the central train station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> variant reading in AS: <em>yatl\u016b-h\u0101 f\u012b al-bas\u0101t\u012bn<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minyat al-Usquf. [1] This is a small village, on the bank of the Main Canal, to its west. Its houses are within orchards,[2] and it is surrounded by date palms and trees. Its orchards contain various fruits such as apricots, grapes, pears, carobs, citrus fruits like bitter orange and lemon, quinces and pomegranates. It is [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/translations\/minyat-al-usquf\/\">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-119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/ruralsocietyislam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/126"}],"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=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}