Letter: T-S Misc.28.256

Letter T-S Misc.28.256

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T-S Misc.28.256
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: October/November 1140 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the plunder of Aden (involving a person called al-Dughaym and the struggle between "the two Sultans" (=ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ghārāt and Sabaʾ b. Abū Suʿūd)), losses at sea, and the sender's failure in purchasing a household male slave (waṣīf) from a ship from East Africa (Bilād al-Zanj) containing newly enslaved individuals (raqīq). (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book II-48.)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Box Misc. 28, f. 256; TS Box Misc. 28, fol. 256
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T-S Misc.28.256 2r

2r

T-S Misc.28.256 1r

1r

T-S Misc.28.256 1v

1v

T-S Misc.28.256 2v

2v
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