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Preface ······························································································ xiii
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I. Documents related to Āghā Khāns
A. Decrees
1. Decree of Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to Ḥājjī Muḥammad in 1850 ···· 3
2. Decree of Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to the jamā‘at of Rūshān
in 1856 ························································································ 4
3. Decree of Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to the jamā‘at of Badakhshānin 1860 ······················································································ 	
  64. Decree of Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to the jamā‘ats of Shughnān,
Rūshān, Chitrār and Bartang in 1864 ····················································· 7
5. Decree of Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to the jamā‘at of Rūshān
in 1864 ························································································ 9
6. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to the jamā‘atsof Wakhān, Zībāk, Yārkand, Sariqūl, Chitrār and Mu‘allim Sayyid Karam‘Alī Shāh in 1908 ·········································································· 10
7. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mukī Sayyid
Karam ‘Alī Shāh and the jamā‘ats of Wakhān, Zībāk, Warshkūm, Sariqūl
and Yārkand in 1912-13 ·································································· 12
8. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mūkhī Sayyid
Mursal in 1913 ············································································· 14
9. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mukī Karam ‘Alī
Shāh and the jamā‘ats of Wakhān, Zībāk, Warshkūm, Sariqūl, and Yārkand
in 1916-17 ·················································································· 15

10. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Muḥammad Naẓar,Amān bīk, Zayd Allāh, ‘Āqil bīk, and all members of the anjuman of Zūngin 1924 ······················································································ 17
11. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Ḥaqq Naẓar,Dawlat, Kirmān Shāh, Gharīb Muḥammad, Shāh-qulī, and all membersof the anjuman of Khārugh-i pāyān in 1924 ··········································· 19
12. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mullā Lāghar bāy,
Qiyā bīk, Fāḍil bīk, and all members of the anjuman of Rin in 1924 ·············· 20
13. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mukhī Sayyid
Yūsuf ‘Alī Shāh, Dād ‘Alī, Dawlat-qadam, Shākhdara, and all membersof the anjuman of Pārshinīw-i pāyān in 1924 ········································· 22
14. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mukhī Khwāja
Badal of the jamā‘at of Shākhdara and all members of the anjuman of that regionin 1924 ······················································································· 24
15. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Raḥmān-qul,Munāsib Shāh, Mīrzā Shāh, ‘Asal Shāh, Musallam Shāh, Shāh Fuṭūr, Sayyid
Shāh, and all members of the anjuman of Sūchān in 1924 ·························· 26
16. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mūkī Sayyid Shāh
Khwāja Badal in 1924 ···································································· 28
17. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to Mukī Khwāja
Badal in 1926 ·············································································· 30
18. Decree of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued to the jamā‘atsof Shughnān, Darwāz, and Ghārān in 1936 ············································ 32

B. Receipts
1. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Sayyid Ḥājjī Muḥammad in 1849 ······························· 34
2. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Ḥājjī Muḥammad in 1856 ········································ 36
3. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1860	
  ······································· 38
4. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to Karam ‘Alī Shāhand the jamā‘at of Badakhshān in 1864 ················································ 40
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5. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to Mīrzā Band ‘Alīin 1867 ······················································································ 42
6. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mīrzā Band ‘Alī in 1867 ·········································· 44
7. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1870 ································ 45
8. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Sayyid Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1871 ······················· 47
9. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Mīrzā Ashraf in 1871 ····································· 48
10. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Mīrzā Band ‘Alī, and other officials in 1871 ········· 49
11. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Mīrzā Band ‘Alī in 1871 ································· 50
12. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1872 ································ 52
13. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mūkhī Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1872 ································ 54
14. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mīrzā Band ‘Alī in 1876 ·········································· 55
15. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mīrzā Band ‘Alī in 1876 ·········································· 57
16. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I issued to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Karam ‘Alī Shāh in 1876 ········································· 59
17. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mīrzā Band ‘Alī ··················································· 60
18. Receipt of zakat issued by Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to the jamā‘atof Badakhshān and Mīrzā Band ‘Alī ··················································· 61
19. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to La‘l bīk
khān in 1893 ··············································································· 62
20. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘at of Badakhshān and La‘l bīk khān, and others in 1894 ·············· 63v

21. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘at of Rūshān, Shughnān, Khūf, Bartang, Yārkand, Chitrār, Zībāk,Darwāz, Ishkāshīm, Wakhān and Darāyūm, and Mu‘allim Sayyid Mursal
in 1901 ······················································································ 65
22. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘at of Shuqnān, Badakhshān, Darwāz, Yārkand, Chitrār, Mukhī
Sayyid Mursal, and others in 1902 ······················································ 67
23. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘ats of Shuqnān, Darwāz, Yārkand, Rūshān, Mukhī Sayyid Mursal,
and others in 1904 ········································································· 69
24. Receipt of zakat from Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III issued
to the jamā‘ats of Wakhān, Zībāk, Sariqūl, Yārkand, Chitrār, Mu‘allim Sayyid
Karam ‘Alī Shāh, and others in 1908 ··················································· 71
25. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘ats of Shuqnān, Rūshān, Bartang, Chitrār, Darwāz, Mu‘allim
Sayyid Mursal, and others in 1908 ······················································ 73
26. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Mukī
Sayyid Mursal and the jamā‘ats of Qund, Suchān, Shākhdara, Shughnān, Khūf,
Bajū, Rūshān, Bartang, Tanshīb, Darwāz, Chitrār, Zībāk, Wakhān, and Qārān
in 1917 ······················································································ 74
27. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘ats of Wakhān, Ishkāshīm, Zībāk, Yārkand, Sariqūl, Tung,and Chitrāl in 1917 ········································································ 76
28. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Mukī
Shāh Sayyid Langar, Kāmryā Shams al-Dīn, and the jamā‘ats of Wakhān, Zībāk,Warshkūm, Sariqūl, and Yārkand in 1922-23 ········································· 77
29. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to the jamā‘at of Khwārugh-i pāyān in 1924 ·········································· 79
30. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Kirmān
Shāh, Ḥaqq Naẓar, Dawlat, Shāh-qulī, Gharīb Muḥammad, and all membersof the anjuman of Khwārugh-i pāyān in 1925 ········································· 80
31. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Kirmān
Shāh, Hak Naẓar, Dawlat, Shāhqulī, Gharīb Muḥammad, and all membersof the anjuman of Khwārugh-i pāyān in 1925 ········································· 82vi32. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III
to ‘Abd al-Raḥīm, Maḥram bīk, Khāldār, Waṭanī, and all those obedientin the village of Rijist in 1926 ··························································· 84
33. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Ātash bīk
and others in 1928 ········································································· 86
34. Receipt of zakat issued by Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III to Mukī
KhwājaBadal and all residents of the Ghund Valley in 1930 ································· 87

C. Others
1. Letter from Shāh Ḥasan ‘Alī / Āghā Khān I to Fatḥ ‘Alī Shāh written sometime
between 1830 and 1834 ·································································· 88
2. Record of the words of Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh / Āghā Khān III written
in 1913 ························································································ 89

II. Documents related to mukhīs
A. Orders
1. Order of Mukhī Sayyid Shāh Ṣafdar issued to Khalīfa Langarī in 1910-11 ······ 93
2. Request of Sayyid Maḥmūd Shāh written to Shāh Manṣūr, Dawlat, and Dīwāna
in 1912 ······················································································ 95
3. Order of Mukhī Sayyid Yūsuf ‘Alī Shāh issued to all jamā‘at of Vīr
in the Ghund Valley in 1917 ····························································· 96
4. Order of Mukhī Muḥammad ‘Alī Shāh issued to the jamā‘at of Ghund
from Tang to Vibist in 1935 ····························································· 98
5. Mukhī’s order issued to Shāh Langar and Fāḍil bīk ·································· 99

B. Tables on collected zakat
1. Table on zakat collected among the residents of the village of Barwāz ·········· 101
2. Table on zakat collected among the residents of Shākhdara-i bālā, who followed
Mukī Sayyid Shāh ‘Abd al-Ma‘ānī ···················································· 102vii

C. Other
1. Mourning for the death by Mukhī Shāh Abū al-Ma‘ānī ···························· 104

III. Genealogies
1. Genealogy of Sayyid Sharīf ····························································· 106
2. Genealogy of Sayyid Malik Jahān Shāh / Sayyid ‘Umar Yamghī ················· 115
3. Genealogy of Mu‘allim Ṣādiq ·························································· 120

IV. Other documents related to religious matters
1. Memorandum on sayyids ································································ 121
2. Prayer (du‘ā) ·············································································· 122
3. Prayer (du‘ā) ·············································································· 123
4. Fatwā on Muḥammad Ḥakīm’s complaint against Muḥammad Akbar ShāhĪshīkāqābāshī ·············································································· 125
5. Booklet published during World War II ·············································· 126

V. Orders
1. Order issued to Qāḍī Ijāzat Shāh in 1894 ············································· 131
2. Appointment letter issued by Sayyid Amīr ‘Abd al-Aḥad from Bukhara
to Sayyid Mīrzā Ashraf Shughnānī in 1897 ·········································· 132
3. Appointment letter issued by the commander of the Langar outpost to Mu’minShāh in 1916 ·············································································· 133
4. Order issued by the commander of the Langar outpost to Aqsaqāl Mu’minShāh and Ṣafar Muḥammad in 1917 ··················································· 134
5. Order issued by the commander of the Langar outpost to Mu’min Shāhin 1918 ····················································································· 135
6. Order issued by the head of the Civil Section Zaimkin to Rustam Shāhin 1919 ····················································································· 136viii

7. Order issued by the Chief of the Pamir Military Border Region to the qāḍīof Shāhdara in 1919 ······································································ 137
8. Order on livestock issued in 1919 ······················································ 138
9. Order issued by Ground force captain Zaimkin to Qāḍī Rustam in 1920 ········ 139
10. Order issued by Vice-Head of the Civil Section Mīrzā Sulaymān to QāḍīRustam in 1920 ··········································································· 140
11. Order issued by the Head of the Civil Section to Qāḍī Rustam in 1920 ········ 	
  141
12. Order issued by ḥākim Petr Zaimkin to Qāḍī Mullā Rustam in 1921 ············· 142
13. Order issued by ḥākim Petr Zaimkin to Qāḍī Sayyid Rustam in 1921 ············ 143

VI. Deeds
1. Deed issued in 1747 ······································································ 144
2. Deed issued in 1752 ······································································ 145
3. Deed issued in 1893 ······································································ 146
4. Deed issued in 1895 ······································································ 147
5. Deed issued in 1896 ······································································ 148
6. Deed issued in 1898 ······································································ 149
7. Deed issued in 1905 ······································································ 151
8. Deed issued in 1907 ······································································ 152
9. Deed issued in 1909 ······································································ 153
10. Deed issued in 1909 ······································································ 154
11. Deed issued in 1910 ······································································ 155
12. Deed issued in 1911 ······································································ 157
13. Deed issued in 1912 ······································································ 159
14. Deed issued in 1912 ······································································ 160
15. Deed issued in 1913 ······································································ 161
16. Deed issued in 1913 ······································································ 163
17. Deed issued in 1912-13 ·································································· 165
18. Deed issued in 1913-14 ·································································· 166ix

19. Deed issued in 1915 ······································································ 167
20. Deed issued in 1915 ······································································ 168
21. Certificate issued in 1915 ······························································· 169
22. Deed issued in 1916 ······································································ 170
23. Deed issued in 1916 ······································································ 172
24. Deed issued in 1916 ······································································ 173
25. Deed issued in 1916 ······································································ 175
26. Deed issued in 1916 ······································································ 177
27. Deed issued in 1917 ······································································ 179
28. Deed issued in 1917 ······································································ 180
29. Deed issued in 1918 ······································································ 181
30. Deed issued in 1918 ······································································ 182
31. Deed issued in 1918 ······································································ 183
32. Deed issued in 1918 ······································································ 184
33. Deed issued in 1918 ······································································ 186
34. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 187
35. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 189
36. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 190
37. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 192
38. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 193
39. Deed issued in 1919 ······································································ 194
40. Deed issued in 1920 ······································································ 195
41. Deed issued in 1921 ······································································ 196
42. Deed issued in 1921 ······································································ 197
43. Deed issued in 1922 ······································································ 198
44. Deed issued in 1924 ······································································ 199
45. Deed issued in 1924 ······································································ 200
46. Deed ························································································ 202x

47. Deed ························································································ 203
48. Deed ························································································ 204
49. Deed ························································································ 205
50. Deed ························································································ 206
51. Deed ························································································ 207
52. Deed ························································································ 208

VII. Letters
1. Letter to Qāḍī Muẓaffar and Aqsaqāl Khudāyār in 1901-02 ······················· 209
2. Letter from Sayyid Ḥusayn sent to Aqsaqāl Murād Ḥusayn in 1910-11 ········· 210
3. Letter from Sayyid Yūsuf ‘Alī Shāh sent to Mīr Muḥammad Raḥīm khānin 1915 ······················································································ 211
4. Letter from the residents of Ritk and Wardj villages sent to Ṣāḥib in 1917 ······ 213
5. Letter from Mīr Muḥammad Raḥīm sent to Īshān Qāḍī Rustam in 1919 ········· 214
6. Letter from militiamen sent to the head of the Pāmīr-Shughnān Province
in 1919 ····················································································· 215
7. Letter from Sayyid Nīr al-Dīn, from Hindūstān, sent to Khwāja Mu’minin 1922 ····················································································· 216
8. Letter to Āq Qāḍī Muẓaffar ····························································· 218
9. Letter to Mīr Sulṭān Shāh ······························································· 219
10. Letter from Mīrza Muḥammad Zamān sent to Īshān Qāḍī Hamdam Shāh ······· 221
11. Letter to an uncle on the paternal side and his brothers ····························· 222
12. Letter from ‘Azīz khān Mīrākhūr sent to Īshān Qāḍī ································ 223
13. Letter from Mullā Shīr Muḥammad, Mullā ‘Alī and their sisters sent
to Mullā Sayyidī ·········································································· 224
14. Letter from Nawrūz Shāh sent to Shāh Sāḥib ········································ 226
15. Letter from the residents of the Mountainous Badakhshān sent to Shāh Sāḥib

228

16. Sample letter (inshā’) ···································································· 230
17. Letter writing practice ··································································· 231
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