La.ne-Poole — Mohammadan Treaties with Chvidiam. 233 

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Translation : — 



* In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. 



* This is what the servant of God, ' Omar, Commander of the 

 Faithful, gave to the people of Jerusalem [iiiya] in pledge of security: 

 he gave them security for their persons and their goods and their 

 churches and their crosses, and its sick and its sound, and all of 

 its religion : their churches shall not he impoverished or destroyed ; 

 nor shall [aught] of it he diminished, neither of its appurtenances 

 nor of its crosses nor of anything of its provisions ; and they shall 

 not he forced against their faith, and not one of them shall he 

 harmed. 



* And none of the Jews shall dwell with them in Jerusalem. 



' And [it is binding] on the people of Jerusalem that they pay the 

 poll-tax as the people of el-Medam pay it ; 



' And that they expel the Eomans and robbers from it [Jerusalem] : 

 and whoso of them goes forth he shall be safe as to his person and 

 property until they reach their place of safety ; and whoso of tliem 



