QMI-INS-037 · 90 AH

Inscription of Ṣabīḥ, Client of Razīq

نقش صبيح فتى رزيق

Ṭūr al-Qawwās

  1. أنا صبيح فتا رزيق بن أمنـ...
  2. سنة تسعين

I, Ṣabīḥ, client (fatā) of Razīq ibn Amn-... the year ninety.

One of the shortest texts in this catalog, just two lines. The word fatā ("young man") here functions like mawlā elsewhere in the corpus, denoting a client or dependent relationship to a patron, Razīq.

Source: al-Ghabbān, Maysāʾ ʿAlī. al-Kitābāt al-Islāmīyah al-Mubakkirah fī Haḍbat Ḥismā bi-Minṭaqat Tabūk. PhD diss., Jāmiʿat al-Malik Saʿūd, 2017, p. 832, inscription no. 38.

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