Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to induce Abū Zikrī to make a gift of provisions for the holiday.

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العلامات

• appeal

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomob. Eliyyahu the Judge). In Arabic script. A narrow vertical strip is missing from the right side. In which Shelomo complains of his poverty and illnesses (alām) and asks for help paying the capitation tax.

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العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Might be in the handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu; the belligerent tone would fit, and the hand is extremely close to JRL SERIES A 191, which he signs.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

last third of Adar 1428 Seleucid (25 February 1117–5 March 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is also stated that Sitt al-Dār will serve and care for her benefactor until her benefactor's death. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, Avraham b. Shelomo, Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib ha-Ḥazzan, Moshe b. ʿEli and Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Validated by Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Haver descendant of Shemaʿya Gaon, Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, and Avraham b. Moshe.

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10

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1

العلامات

• gift
• heqdesh
• release

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Malīḥa the sister of Shelomo Ibn al-Amʿaṭ ha-Levi and Abū l-Faḍl Ṣadoq b. […] and dhāqāt(??) to Hiba b. Abū Saʿd (presumably her son) for two dinars. […] Abū'l-Faḍl was also to provide Hiba b. Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts.

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1

العلامات

• arabic script
• education
• language
• mother
• son
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

last day of Dhū l-Qaʿda 544 Hijrī (30 March 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams from Khalaf, a sum composed of the price of a certain kind of silk worth 425 dirhams, plus other dues from Khalaf, to be paid on 10 Dhū l-Ḥijja 544 AH, which is 10 April 1150 CE. […] On recto (see separate record) there is an acknowledgement made by the Jewish court concerning the content of the Arabic deed, signed by Shelomob. Seʿadya and Avraham b. Natan ha-Kohen.

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العلامات

• damin
• dimme
• silk

1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1366 Seleucid (July 1055 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Tammām, leave estates to their two brothers' sons, Mevorakh b. Yisrael and Shemuel b. Yehuda. A court of three (Avraham b. Shelomo, Nahray, and ʿEli ha-Kohen) will decide what will be sold and what divided between the two nephews.

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1

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العلامات

• 11th c
• estate

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

25 Tammuz 1418 Seleucid (18 July 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Partnership agreement between Nethanel b. Tiqva and Eli b. Mevasser in a clothing and tailoring shop. […] The document is signed by Shelomob. Mevorakh. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 210)

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العلامات

• autograph
• clothing
• partnership
• shop

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

II (recto, left column and most of verso): Dowry evaluation (taqwīm) for [...] b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen and the orphan Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Yeshuʿa b. Peraḥya. Dowry: 55 dinars. Marriage payments: 5 + 25 = 30. […] Lines 1-5 were written by Shelomob. Zakkay. (Information from Goitein's index card and from Amir Ashur's dissertation)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. […] Goitein claims that the letter was sent by Shelomob. Yehuda to the Karaites and Rabbanites in Egypt and it was written down by Yeshua ha-Kohen b.

العلامات

• alexandria
• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (a) ʿAzzūz bt. […] Elʿazar ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Amʿaṭ, sold to her son Bū Saʿīd a number of items (טסת ומתארה והאון ודסת . . .) for 3 dinars. (b) Something involving Rayyisa bt. Elʿazar the wife of Meshullam known Abū l-Ḥusayn b. […] Moshe ha-Kohen known as Saniyy al-Dawla (the father and some of his offspring, including ʿĀliya's sister Zayn, are mentioned also in T-S 12.104 (PGPID 16119) and T-S 16.188 (PGPID 3437); the latter is also the sale of a slave). Buyer: Shemuel b. Shelomo ha-Sar known as al-Dustarī (appears also in T-S 10J7.10).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

3 Elul 5583 Anno Mundi (10 August 1823 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Deals entirely with business transactions; Yehuda is to send something to Shelomo Naḥm__[?] and perhaps the letter writer in Alexandria: who states "the ship is in Alexandria."

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1

العلامات

• 19th c
• gatenio
• ladino
• late alexandria

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

There are 12 signatures, including Shelomo Ḥalafta who is known from several other documents.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter to the writer's brother Shelomo. Two drafts. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 16th century.

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

4 Shevaṭ 5566 Anno Mundi (23 January 1806 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Karo and Avraham ha-Levi.

العلامات

• avraham ha-levi
• cesana
• karo y frances
• mondolfo

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Thursday, 30 Kislev 1530 Seleucid (20 December 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court testimony in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Thursday, end of Kislev 1530 Seleucid = 20 December 1218 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. In which Salmān b. Shelomo ha-Levi states that his brother Barakāt made his will at the beginning of Shevat and died on the 26th of Tevet, and that his widow Niʿam/Noʿam bt.

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1

العلامات

• bilbays
• inheritance
• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid (15 November 1129–14 December 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid = December 1129 CE (the date appears both in the document itself and in the letters surrounding Natan's signature). In which Abū l-Faraj "the physician of the fleet" (ṭabīb al-uṣṭūl) sues his debtor Abū l-Ḥassan b. Muʿammar Ibn al-Baṭṭ for 22 dinars and 70 dirhams, documented in an Arabic debt contract.

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العلامات

• physicians

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names mentioned: Faḍlallāh; [...] bt. ʿAmram; Abū ʿAlī b. Dāʾūd; ʿImmanuʾel b. Peloni ("so-and-so"); Shelomo.

1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid (3 August 1250 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = 3 August 1250 CE (though Goitein came up with the conversion to 31 July 1250 CE). The teacher Shemuel b. Shelomo has left some money with an unnamed friend for his burial.

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1

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1

العلامات

• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Nadiv the cantor, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu b. […] Greetings to Berakhot (=probably Shelomo, Eliyyahu's son) and various other people.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• business
• wheat

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen, writing from the countryside to his cousin, the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1122–50, based on the dated documents of the addressee.

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العلامات

• famine
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: lifestyle
• illness: rich description
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 1542 Seleucid (5 April 1231–3 May 1231 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 CE. […] Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Amshāṭī, the wife of Abū l-Baqāʾ Elʿazar b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil. She leases a bustān with a house and a qāʿa (also referred to as a half-house) to Abū l-Riḍā for 7 years against 52.5 dirhams (i.e., 7.5 per year), which will be used for renovation of these properties.

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1

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a long dirge in Hebrew, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, upon the death of three prominent members of the Jewish community: the rabbis Shemuel, Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq. […] Friedman as the judges in Maimonides’ court, see Friedman, India Book IVA, pp. 36–37. Shemuel is Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi, who died in 1203. (Information in part from Amir Ashur's Fragments of the Month, April 2011, November 2016.)

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2

العلامات

• autograph
• maimonides
• moshe b. levi
• responsa
• responsum

1 نسخ

Document date

Monday, 7 Nisan 1452 Seleucid (17 March 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In a matter of inheritance, ʿAmmār b. Makhlūf had been sued by his relative Ghālib recently converted to Islam (אלפושיע) and had promised to pay him 20 dinars if he forced another relative, Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Peraḥya (titled he-ḥaver ḥemdat ha-yeshiva rosh ha-nedivim), to give an oath concerning the same sum. […] ʿAmmār withdraws his accusation that it was Abū l-Mufaḍḍal who had caused his imprisonment and otherwise harmed him. Witnesses: Shemuel b. Shelomo; Avraham b. Yosef ha-Kohen. The validation is signed by Yefet ha-Mumḥe and Yeshuʿa b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, [25] Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (20 April 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper fragment: Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to his uncle Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. […] If my letters have not yet reached you, then I request your attention to this matter, may God preserve your glory, so that (the receipt) will, God willing, reach me quickly." Abī Isḥaq Barhūn b. Isḥaq is mentioned in ll. 19-20. (Information from Marina Rustow and Alan Elbaum.)

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4

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1

العلامات

• capitation
• tax
• tax receipt
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 12 Adar I 1350 Seleucid (9 February 1039 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony given in court recording a lively dispute between Mubārak, Hillel, Ḥabīb b. Khalaf, Isḥāq b. Khalaf, Salāma b. Mundhir, a Rosh Kalla, Maḥfūẓ b. […] Signed by Mevorakh b. David, Yiṣḥaq b. […] and Yiṣḥaq b. Khalaf. The list of witnesses provided below is in a hand similar to that of Efrayim b. Shemarya, mentioning Maḥfūẓ b. Yiṣḥaq, Isḥāq b. Khalaf, Shelomob. […] and [Efrayim] b.

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1

العلامات

• testimony

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

27 Tishrei 5568 Anno Mundi (29 October 1807 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

There are probably several joins for this fragment and many individuals listed who may appear in additional documents from the early 1800s: (ENA 3306.8r), ʿImannuʾel Maṭalon; (ENA 3306.7r), Shelomo Cuenca (whose surname echoes the city in Castille), Yaʿacov Cuenca, Daniel Florentin, Yosef Moliano (possibly Italian = "Mogliano"), . The accounts deal with quantities of sugar (אסוקר), cinnamon (קאנילה), Yisraʾel Yaʿīsh, Aron Cassuto, Yosef Ben-Veniste (ן׳ ביניסטי), Daniel Ḥason; (ENA 3306.7), Menaḥem Mikhāl, Moshe Yiṣḥaqarī, Shelomo Mosseri, Ḥayyīm Naḥama, and others. MCD. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• 19th c
• cinnamon
• ladino
• sephardim
• sugar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 55a: Letter from Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his brother Shemuel in Fustat, complaining of his failure to procure a responsum (see III, 55).

العلامات

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būṣīr to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Andalūsī (c. 1061 CE).

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2

العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of the Berekhya brothers to Ibn 'Awkal concerning loss of friendship between them and concerning the inheritance of an emancipated slave.

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العلامات

• inheritance
• personal
• slave
• yosef b. awkal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Account of building operations ca. 1240. A double leaf taken from a notebook, written in Arabic script. The document mentions work on a dome and …

العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• communal
• coptic numerals
• qodesh
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Written (also validated) by Avraham b. Natan Av. Dated: 1104 or 1107 CE, with a partial year in the first line, Nisan 14[..] […] One of the boundaries: Umm Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Yosef, Menaḥam b. Shemuel, Yakhin b. Mevorakh, the parnas and trustee Yosef b. Shelomo, Peraḥya b. Yeḥezqel, Ḥalfon […], […] b. Mevorakh, and […] b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomob. Eliyyahu to his brother, Abu Zikri in Alexandria. Reporting that the 'old man' (likely their father Eliyyahu) arrived safely. Shelomo reports that the cheese has been a fiasco. […] Greetings to their paternal uncle Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tawwazī and to Rabbenu Yosef and his son and to Abū l-Maʿānī b. Hārūn and his brother Hārūn. Abū l-Ḥasan the brother of Maʿānī is well.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomob. Avraham (may be the same troublemaker as in T-S 24.74, another brawl document) and Sason b. […] "They also said" that someone had tried to beat Shelomo with a crop (miqraʿa), only for Sason to intervene and grab the crop out of his hand, 'out of fear lest the gentiles intervene between them.' #2: A testament in which a father gives the house in which he lives to his baby daughter Sitt al-Gharb, who was still nursing, with the exclusion of her brothers.

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العلامات

• amir
• brawl
• violence

1 مناقشة

Document date

15 Tammuz 1428 Seleucid (17 June 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Mentions Sunday, 15 Tammuz 1428 Seleucid = 17 June 1117 CE. […] Shelomo al-Neʾeman al-Qudsī and Yosef b. Yefet ha-Levi. One of the witnesses of the document is Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen [b.] Shelomo ha-Shofeṭ and his son Yeshuʿa on behalf of the two congregations of Alexandria, addressed most likely to the community of Fustat.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The JRL catalogue lists the recto and verso with different authors: Asher ben Yehiʾel (ca. 1250-1327 CE) and Shelomo Ibn Aderet (1235-1310 CE). In either case, the paleography and layout suggest that this fragment comes from a later bound collection.

العلامات

• responsa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, Barūkh Jazzār, among others.

العلامات

• aripol
• condiote
• hami
• jazzar
• late donations
• (+ 5 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5509 Anno Mundi (23 September 1748–12 September 1749 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, Shelomo Romano Būlāqī, Yisraʾel al-Ḥajj, Yaʿaqov Asyiahu, Shaḥata Barūkh, Yosef al-Malṭī, Yom Ṭov Navon, Yosef Shabtīn[?], Yisraʾel Negrin, Shelomo [b. Yisraʾel Negrin], Yaʿaqov Alarcon, Menaḥem Shabtīn[?], Yosef Tawzī[?] (תוזי), Shelomo Almosnino, Avraham Levi Khorla (כורלא), Yiṣḥaq Revaḥ, Merkado Alarcon, Avraham Riyuḥ[?]

العلامات

• 18th c
• alarcon
• bialobos
• gatenio
• late donations
• (+ 3 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mivḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1125–50 CE. […] Regards to Natan's maternal aunt, Avraham ha-Melammed, Umm Manṣūr, Yūsuf b. Munajjā, Ibn Ḥātim, and Abū l-Faraj. Regards from the sender's maternal uncle, who also asks Ibn al-Shelishi to send the daftar containing Deuteronomy.

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2

1 نسخ

Document date

Adar 1448 Seleucid (25 January 1137–23 February 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Adar 1448 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and signed by himself and Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Concerning a loan of 5 dinars from Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b.

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3

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1

العلامات

• loan
• marital reconciliation

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid (5 April 1198 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Bayān, promises to pay after two months the remaining 5 mithqāls (out of the original price of 12 mithqāls) which she still owes to the seller Abū l-Barakāt Berakhot (or Yefet?) b. Moshe. She also pays the market fee and the broker. (Incidentally, the buyer's name means “the mistress of the scepter of lords,” or, if an abbreviation for Sitt Qaḍīb (Sitt al-)Sāda, "the mistress of the scepter, (the mistress of) lords.") Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Sason “Head of the Judges” and Yehuda b. Shelomo.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• slave

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copy of Maimonides' letter to Yosef b. Yehuda which comprises the introduction to the Guide for the Perplexed. In the hand of Shelomob. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active late 12th and early 13th century), who was the scribe for a number of Maimonides' works.

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العلامات

• guide for the perplexed
• maimonides

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر