An Unpublished Decree of Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī Regarding Administrative Matters in the Port of al-Ṭūr

In what follows, the reader will find an edition with annotated translation of document no. E13788, which has been part of the holdings of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (West Asia & North Africa)—previously known as the Oriental Institute—in Chicago since 1939. It contains a decree issued by the sultan Qānṣūh al-Ghawrī on 28 Jumādá I 907/9 December 1501 and addressed to the administrators of the port of al-Ṭūr in the Sinai Peninsula.