Legal document: CUL Or.1080 15.62
Legal document CUL Or.1080 15.62What's in the PGP
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Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye doctor (kaḥḥāl), who has received a certification from Muslim witnesses on his trustworthiness for practising in a Muslim family, can actually practise there.
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
CUL Or.1080 15.62 1r
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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- ما يقول السادة الفقها ائمة الدين وهداة المسلمين
- في رجل يهودي كحال وهو دون لحية وقد شهدت
- له عدول الاسلام بنه مامون في تصرفه لان يدخل
- على حرم المسلمين هل يجوز له ذلك اذ وشهدوا
- له بذلك ام لا افتونا يرحمكم الله
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
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- What do the masters, the jurisprudents, the 'imāms of the religion and guides of the Muslims, say
- regarding a Jewish eye-doctor, without a beard,
- concerning whom Muslim certified witnesses have borne testimony that he is trusted in the practice of his profession to visit
- the family of Muslims. Is he permitted to do this, having received a testimony to
- that effect, or not? Grant us your decision, may God have mercy upon you.