Legal document: T-S Ar.39.392

Legal document T-S Ar.39.392

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T-S Ar.39.392
Primary Language
Arabic

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An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe (i.e., the well-known Sahlān b. Avraham) as cantor and leader of the (Babylonian) community (…لهم يصلي بهم ويتقدم عليهم…), also as authority over ‘their marriages and divorces,’ citing all of his good traits ( صيانته ومعرفته etc.). ASE

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Sahlān b. Avraham

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Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 392; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 392
Input date
In PGP since 2021
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.392. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20923/ (accessed August 7, 2026).