Letter from the merchant Maḵlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī, the \u2018overseer of the Sultan\u2019s ships\u2019, to an influential friend. Maḵlūf had left Alexandria for Tunisia, fleeing \u2018the plundering monk\u2019, the notorious finance minister Abū Najāḥ. Maḵlūf arrived in Alexandria in the spring following Abū Najāḥ\u2019s death, travelled to Tunisia in the summer of 1130 CE, and wrote the letter the following summer (1131 CE). Much of the letter details the behaviour of his profligate and disreputable son. All Maḵlūf\u2019s attempts to correct him (presenting him to the qāḍī of Alexandria, taking him on a trip to Tunisia, sending him to the countryside on administrative work, suggesting to him travels to Yemen and to Syria) were to no avail. Maḵlūf quotes his son as writing \u2018as long as you are alive, I have bad luck. As soon as you are dead, I shall be successful\u2019. The letter\u2019s purpose is to seek business for Maḵlūf and a position with the addressee for his wastrel son. <\/p>"
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