State document: ENA 3939.4

State document ENA 3939.4

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ENA 3939.4
Primary Language
Arabic

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Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era based on the venue al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī (the chief qadi court of Cairo). Regarding their dispute with a group of people (jamāʿa) in lawsuits (daʿawī sharʿīyya). The petitioner requests that an official (royal?) order (al-khaṭṭ al-ʿālī) be granted to the effect that no suit against them be heard except in al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī– rather than any of Cairo's subordinate qadi courts.

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 3939, f. 4; ENA 3939, fol. 4
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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ENA 3939.4 verso

verso
Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum, unpublished editions (n.p., 2022).

  1. يقبلون الارض

  2. الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)

  3. ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و

  4.  لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[دقات 

  5. العميمة والعواطف الرحيمة تشريف قصتهم بالخط العالي

  6. ان لا يسمع لهم دعوى الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي ليحصل لهم

  7. الخلاص على الوجه الشرعي صدقة عليهم واحسانا

  8. لديهم انهو ذلك ان شا الله تعالى

  9. والحمد لله وحده

Right margins

  1. قضيتهم

  2. المماليك 

  3. ابراهيم والحاة(؟)

  4. ونمر(؟) 

  5. الريسين اليهود

ENA 3939.4 recto

recto
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