ثيقة شرعيّة: ENA 3974.6

الوصف

Legal document. Dated: first decade of Jumādā II 440 AH (November 1048 CE). Involves Azhar b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī, known as Ibn Abī al-Darrāʿ, the agent of al-sayyida al-sharīfa al-malika al-jalīla. Concerns the produce of the gardens belonging to said Fatimid princess. Well preserved, and merits examination. The Sayyida al-Sharīfa mentioned here could be al-Sharīfa bt. Ṣāḥib al-Sabīl, who is believed to have provided meals to the caliph al-Mustanṣir bi-llah during the Shidda al-ʿUẓma (see al-Maqrīzī, Ighāthat al-umma bi-kashf al-ghumma, p. 99). On verso there is a lovely prayer in Judaeo-Arabic, with copious praises for God and expressions of repentance (and the psychic and bodily distress that ensues from reflecting on one's sins). AA. ASE. YU. MR.