ثيقة شرعيّة: AIU XII.169

الوصف

Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān al-Maṣlaḥa at the end of the due date. The coin referenced in this document - قرش رومي, is likely a reference to an Ottoman Kuruş minted in the core imperial provinces such as Rumelia or Anadolu. "Rūmī" is a somewhat tricky term in the Ottoman period because– although it meant Roman or Byzantine throughout Antiquity-->Middle Ages –the Ottomans began to use it on a self-referential basis. This was to reference the mantle of the Roman Empire that they took on with the conquest of Istanbul and much of the Roman/Byzantine former territory. Needs further examination.