Legal document: T-S Ar.39.189
Legal document T-S Ar.39.189What's in the PGP
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Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is the same Bū Saʿīd as in T-S NS 297.1, another report of the death of a Jewish woman). Dated: Thursday, 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 682 AH, which is 18 February 1284 CE. She left a father and two sons. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.) On verso and the margins of recto, there are business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
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Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.39.189 1r
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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The slaves report the death of ʿAlāʾ, daughter of Bū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Bū Saʿd [on]
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Thursday, the twenty-ninth of Dhū al-Qaʿda, in the year six-hundred and thirty-two.
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She left the following heirs: Her aforementioned father, Bū al-ʿAlāʾ, and herbrothers,
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Hiba and Bū Saʿd, the Sons of the aforementioned Bū al-ʿAlāʾ.
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They wrote their signatures in (testimony of) this on the aforementioned date.
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Praise be to God, the eternal.
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The slave recognizes the validity of that.
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[Written by ]
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The slave [recognizes the validity of that].
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[Written by ]
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