رسالة: T-S 10J16.12

الوصف

Letter addressed to the Jewish community concerning the appointment of David I b. Avraham b. Maimonides as Nagid. Dating: ca. mid-13th century; Goitein suggests 1238. The sender reports that 'all the notables of the state are aiding us and rejoicing in the succession of Rabbenu David." The amir Jamāl al-Dīn now requires the community to send him 10 of their elders. The sender asks for at least nine men by name: al-Raṣuy, al-Rashīd, Fakhr al-Dawla, ʿAfīf, Abū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār al-Levi, Abū l-Majd al-Kohen, Hiba b. David, al-Kohen al-Bazzāz, the teacher R. Nissim. Same scribe as T-S AS 165.135 (a mystical or pietistic treatise) and likely T-S 8J6.16 (Efrayim b. Shemuel ha-Melammed).