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Watching the taxman? Oversight and fiscal accountability in Khurasan seen through one document in the Bamiyan Papers

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Who does watch the taxman? As a research project interested in Khurasan, the Invisible East team examined documents belonging to a 12th-century warehouse manager charged with collecting grain taxes on behalf of the state in Bamiyan, and found some tentative answers in one document: NLI, Ms.Heb.8333.44 (Figure 2).3 The document is preserved amongst the Bamiyan Papers (aka “Afghan Geniza”) purchased by the National Library of Israel (NLI) in 2016.
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University of Oxford
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ContEd
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Continuing Education
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0000-0002-1951-5464

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University of Oxford
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ContEd
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Continuing Education
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Green Templeton College
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0000-0002-1951-5464
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851607
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https://ror.org/0505m1554
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AH/S002596/1


Publisher:
Invisible East
Series:
Document of the Month
Series number:
4/26
Place of publication:
Oxford
Publication date:
2026-04-30
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Paper number:
18


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2415893
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2026-05-07
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