Legal query or responsum: NLI Ar. 725
Legal query or responsum NLI Ar. 725Description
A petition to the wazīr al-dawla al-ʿuthmānīyya, to alleviate excess taxed and burdens from the Qaraite community, in relation to their cemetery. Signed by 6 persons, three of them are described as "al-khādim li-l-ʿilm bi-al-azhār". On the back side a Judeo-Arabic note describing the documents as a "fatwā from four scholars of Islam to alleviate the taxes from the Qaraite Jews". The document was in the possesion of the Qaraite community of Cairo in the Dār Simḥa synagogue in Ḥārat Zuwayla and was documented there by D. S. Richards in 1969, who later published the description of all the documents he found there in his 1972 article (as document no. XXV). Today the document is at the National Library of Israel.