Legal document: T-S AS 178.7
Legal document T-S AS 178.7Description
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk. The one on recto (the later use) involves Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Damīrī al-Mālikī, Ibrāhīm b. Ḥarūn al-Yahūdī, Isḥāq, and al-Ḥajj Yūsuf, among several other people. The document mentions a claim and the nomination of agents to act on behalf of one of the parties (?). Contains the signatures of witnesses at the bottom. Mentions the Maliki qāḍī Yaḥyā al-Damīrī al-Mālikī who was the last Maliki qāḍī al-quḍāt to serve the Mamluk Sultanate before its fall to the Ottomans (cf. al-Ghazzī, al-Kawākib al-sāʼira bi-aʻyān al-miʼa al-ʻāshira, 1:313). There are Hebrew script notations in the upper and lower margins of the recto. Needs further examination.