Legal document: CUL Or.1080 15.62

Legal document CUL Or.1080 15.62

Shelfmark: CUL Or.1080 15.62
Editor: Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).

Primary Language: Arabic

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Description

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.

Edition: Khan, Geoffrey

Edition: Khan, Geoffrey

Translation:

CUL Or.1080 15.62 1r

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Transcription

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

Recto

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

Translation

CUL Or.1080 15.62 1v

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