On the wall above the main entrance to the St. James Armenian Convent in Jerusalem, there is an elaborately carved inscription in Arabic dating to the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Jaqmaq. The inscription records the cancelation by Jaqmaq of certain taxes imposed on the Armenian monastery. It also says, “…cursed by the one and may be he be a son of a cursed [father] and may God the Almighty’s curse be upon him whoever imposes any tax or inflicts an injustice [upon this holy place].”
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