Scholarship on State document: T-S Misc.20.92

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

A mighty decree, at the top of which in the writing of the exalted hand (there is a motto):
Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
From the beloved slave of God, al-Manṣūr Abū ʿAlī, the imām al-Ḥākim bi-Amr
Allāh, commander of the faithful, son of the imām, al-ʿAzīz bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful,
to the community of Karaite Jews, in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere. On account of the
righteous path that the commander of the faithful follows and the just course that he pursues,
he has given instructions for you to be separated from the Rabbanites, due to the cleavage
between you regarding the law and your differences regarding ritually clean
and unclean food. He has removed you from the jurisdiction of the judge of this
sect and put you [ ]
He has decreed that no approach should be made to ... [ ]

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