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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He urges her to make a pilgrimage to the Land of Israel and visit its holy sites. Abū l-Faḍl hopes not only that she will perform the pilgrimage and visit him, but, apparently, also that she will marry him and that together they will spend the rest of their lives in the land of Israel.

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العلامات

• pilgrims

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to Syria (al-Shām) and visiting/solicitation of Yiṣḥāq al-ʿAjamī."

العلامات

• scribes

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Document date

26 Adar 1318 Seleucid (16 February 1007 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel ha-Levi and has enclosed responsa for the addressees' queries. He had received a letter from Abū l-Faraj Aluf (=Yosef b. […] (Information in part from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #38 and VMR; https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragments/posts/throwback-thursday-study-babylonian-jewry; and Jennifer Grayson's dissertation, p. 82.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a letter from someone to his brother, Abū l-Ḥasan, who stayed home alone during the recent holiday while his children were visiting the writer. The writer alludes numerous times to Abū l-Ḥasan’s distress and says that he ought to come for the upcoming holiday, as Abū l-Ḥasan’s house is empty and burdens are more bearable in the midst of family.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He then asks, "Whenever al-Shaykh al-Ṭāhir al-Nā'ib visits you, make sure to detain him and send word to me so that I can come and ask him about something that some people told me that he can take care of."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Ladino

Bifolium from a Ladino transcription of a medical work by the physician (el diskreto sabio) Arnau de Villanova. Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

العلامات

• ladino literary
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

and that he will not prevent her from visiting her family a certain number of times each week.

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• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid (7 February 1094 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli as well as the same beadle Yosef. While visiting Jerusalem, Yosef was asked by the divorcee's mother to deliver the document, which he now entrusts to Khalīfa b. […] Yefet he-Ḥaver (known also from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/38, ENA NS 18.1, T-S 24.1, T-S 12.1, T-S 16.192, and possibly T-S 16.212), also witnessed by Aharon b. […] Aharon may be the son-in-law of the Gaʾon Evyatar mentioned in T-S 10J24.1 (PGPID 1536); other documents of his include ENA 4010.36 + PER H 1 (PGPID 764) and potentially T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + T-S AS 153.177 + T-S 18J5.3 (PGPID 7545).

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• divorce

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Simḥa's wife–the daughter of Eliyyahu and Sitt Rayḥān—is now in a deep depression ("the world closed itself to her") and sees nobody except Sitt Rayḥān when she visits. Simha now begs her to visit again soon. See also T-S 18J4.10.

العلامات

• alexandria
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• (+ 6 المزيد)

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Document date

1469 Seleucid (1157–1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the top part of recto, there are Judaeo-Arabic notes in which an unidentified person recorded all the items of titillating gossip that (s)he and his or her brother "Ab" heard mainly from Abū l-Khayr. (1) Abū Manṣūr used to think that your father was מכשוף אלדאר אלכומר, the meaning of which is not entirely clear. (2) The "family" of al-Raḥbī does not observe the laws of purity (טומאה וטהרה) and sits in front of him exposed in a diaphanous gown (ghilāla), and al-Raḥbī drinks on the Sabbath. (3) Ibn al-Baṭṭāl sits with al-Raḥbī and curses you with "the Z and the Q" (from "zawj qaḥba," the worst curse possible; see Ibn Taymiyya, Minhāj al-Sunna, https://lib.eshia.ir/11366/1/458) and al-Raḥbī joins in the cursing even as he pretends to be among those who love you, but "promise not to tell that I told you." (4) [Some days later in Suwayqat al-Shamʿ or al-Jāmiʿ]: Al-Raḥbī said that someone was his "son" in Alexandria; the rest of this tidbit is cryptic and mentions a certain Kohen; (5) ʿUqayb said that al-Raḥbī told him that Ibn al-Baradānī fornicated (fasaqa) with the juwayra (presumably a diminutive form of jāriya, female slave, perhaps implying that she was also a minor) whom he redeemed from captivity, "and he is even more wicked than that" or "could there be someone more wicked than that?"

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• conflict
• curses
• gossip
• purity
• scandal
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Mohamed A. H. Ahmed's blog entry "Sexuality in T-S NS 289.91," https://apcairogenizah.com/blog/t-s-ns-289-91/) Rough translation: O master, bring me to you, and beg my soul to be your ransom, wela, be your ransom, ayy ayy, be your ransom.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are numerous fragments in the hand of the same scribe, e.g., T-S Ar.34.186; see Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h466.html) for the list.

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• captives
• communal
• crusade
• tax

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Primary language

Arabic

The string of honorifics in this document closely resemble several of the models quoted by al-Qalqashandī in Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshā (see, e.g., https://shamela.ws/book/9429/2837). On recto there is Dayenu from the Passover haggada.

العلامات

• isfahsalar

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Document date

1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Since it was agreed that if Yosef broke the agreement, he will give twenty mithqāls 'to the poor of Almeria and to the captives', this document was presumably written in Spain, at the time when Ibn Al-Najera visited Ḥalfon, in Lucena, at the beginning of July 1138.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, c. mid-16th century, from Avraham Sagish, in Jerusalem, to Yosef Qorqos, who is normally resident in Jerusalem but is currently visiting Egypt, regarding the distribution of funds sent to Jerusalem by various Egyptian donors, including the dignitary Shelomo al-Ashqar.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• al-ashqar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

442 Hijrī (26 May 1050–14 May 1051 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee's titles (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ tāj al-aṣfiyāʾ qāḍī l-quḍāt dāʿī [l-duʿāt ʿalam al-majd] khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuhū) are attested by al-Maqrīzī as titles of the vizier al-Yāzūrī (r. 1050–58 CE) (see https://shamela.ws/book/176/580 and see al-Imad, The Fatimid Vizierate, 181–83). […] Ibn al-Qalānisī states that al-Muʾayyad arrived in Damascus with the decree of appointment at the beginning of Rajab 441 AH = Nov/Dec 1049 CE, but that he did not assume power (tasallama al-wilāya) until 442 AH, which began in May 1050 CE (see https://shamela.ws/book/22799/165). Given that al-Muʾayyad appears in this document together with a vizier who is most likely al-Yāzūrī in the context of official documents confirming an appointment in Damascus, it is probably not coincidental that his assumption of power coincided with al-Yāzūrī's assumption of power as vizier in Cairo in Muḥarram 442 AH = May/June 1050 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with a visit to the synagogue at Dammūh (l. 10) during a time of unrest. […] The sender insists that he is not neglecting Abū l-Ḥasan or encouraging his idleness. The addressee must not blame him.

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العلامات

• dammuh
• unrest

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Although ill himself, the writer states that he visited the sultan’s palace every other day. The letter also makes a note of “our colleagues at Qūṣ.”

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العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• al-malik al-aziz
• al-malik al-mu'azzam
• damascus
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Latin

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, May 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40134.

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• augustine
• latin
• palimpsest

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of or postscript to a letter requesting a visit or a letter from the recipient. (Information from Goitein's typed texts)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment describing the visit of the Nasi in the Babylonian synagogue. (Information from E.

العلامات

• iraqi congregation
• nasi

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

No visitor should be accompanied by [a Gentile] or an apostate. 56 5. […] In the synagogue women should pray in the gallery upstairs and men in the hall downstairs, as is established by ancient custom, sunna. 61 17. Visitors to the place62 (in times other than those of pilgrimages) should go there only for a serious purpose, not for pleasure or for something that, by deed or word, might endanger them or others or damage the compound. They should provide themselves with keys and not tamper with the locks, nor enter through the gardens or by scaling a wall.63 18.

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• beer
• chess
• dammuh

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Astrological instructions for a doctor regarding how to know the illness of a patient by using the constellation of the stars at the time of the visit. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• abortion
• astrology
• illness
• illness: heartsickness
• illness: mental
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Document date

Thursday, 25 Adar 1408 Seleucid (12 March 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar, who clarifies details regarding the will of Abū Kathīr the doctor (such as the use of abbreviations ‘5’ for ‘500’) after visiting him in his house a day before his death.

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• disability

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[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, July 2018]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.34050. Note that Goitein treats Bodl.

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العلامات

• illumination
• ketubba
• micrography

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Giving instructions concerning a visit(?) of Eliyyahu the Judge. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• unedited judge eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter conveying greetings and relating that the community is expecting word from or about Yiṣḥaq who was obviously expected to come and visit. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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