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Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim fleet and whether something …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Abū al-Ḥasan b. Khūlayf Iskandarānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Asks …
Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from India (Kullam, recto margin l. 15) and intends to return to …
2 نسخين
Letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū Saʿīd Halfon b. Moshe, Trustee of the Yeshiva. This person is unknown and is not listed in Goitein's index …
1 نسخ
Fol. 7r: Note in Arabic script. "Send us. . . lemon. . . ḥalāwa. . . obtain for me pomegranate syrup." Fol. 7v: Order of …
Fol. 5r: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Related to the India trade; mentions the Kārim fleet, worrying news, and someone named Abū l-Saddād.
Letter fragment. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen (according to Goitein's notes). Mentions Sayyidnā, al-Shaykh Maḍmūn, Ismāʿīl al-Majjānī; the kārim fleet (which travelled between …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in 'Aydhab, to his sons, before embarking again for the east. He reports that he had dismissed his traveling companion …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter from an unidentified sender, in India, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. This fragment begins cryptically: "...and he …