List or table: F 1908.44M

Description

List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū Mūsā Hārūn al-jahbadh. Extract from Gottheil-Worrell : "The title and contents indicate that we have here a register of tax-payers in some Jewish community, probably in Fusṭāṭ, with the amounts that they have paid—not the balance to be paid (as l. 1 states)—of the fiscal tax. Interest centers in the personal names. One must remember, however, that these people were often no more conscious of the meaning and implication of their names than we ourselves are of ours. There are Arab-Muslim, Jewish and double names, epithets and descriptive identifications. The Jewish names already include well-known modern motifs."