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  1. 12401LetterT-S 8.29

    Letter sent to Alexandria, mentioning Abū Manṣūr al-Mashmiaʿ (אלמשמיע), Abū l-Munā (vocalised אלמֻנֵי), and Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov b. Banīn. Mentions the payment of the capitation tax.

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  2. 12402LetterT-S 8J16.7

    Letter addressed to Abu Sahl b. Moshe, the cantor, in which the writer requests aid in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

    1. תו שלום וג'
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורותך
    3. שלום שלום לירחוק (!) ולקרב
    4. סבב הדה אלרקעה ולכבר מן מר' ור'
    5. אלשיך אבו // סהל // החבר השר ה/א/דיר החכם
    6. והניבון (!) ומ…

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    1. "[Say] as follows: '[To life!] Greetings to [you],'" etc. (1 Samuel 25:6).
    2. "Those who love Your teaching enjoy well-being" (Psalm 119:165). 
    3. "…

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  3. 12403LetterT-S 8J21.13

    Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov. Dating: Early 13th century. In Hebrew.

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  4. 12404LetterT-S 8J28.11

    The sender urgently asks the addressee to send for the merchants Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-Suṭūḥ from Tripoli (Libya) and his traveling companion Yaʿaqov b. Zikrī al-Nafūsī who are soon to depart for Yemen.

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  5. 12405Legal documentT-S 10J2.37

    The divorce is between Avraham b. Yosef and Naṣr bt. Yeshuʿa (or perhaps Naẓar bt.

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  6. 12406Legal documentT-S 10J7.7

    Recto (secondary use): Record of testimony regarding a settlement according to which a debt is to be repaid in six monthly installments, concluded under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saadya, in Alexandria. Dated by Goitein to ca. 1075.

    1. בש רח
    2. יקול [[תאבת]] //יכין// בן אברהם //הנודע תאבת// אלצבאג אני חצרת
    3. בחצרה מרנו ורבנו מבורך החבר המעולה
    4. אלוף הבינות חכם הישיבה סנהדרא רבא
    5. ברב סעדיה …

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  7. 12407Legal documentT-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side.

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    1. [ ]לך א[ ]
    2. דנן בקנין גמ[ור ]
    3. ותנאין אן אלת[ ]
    4. עליה אלסלטאן לל[ ]
    5. אלשרוט אלמשרוח[ה ]
    6. טלב עלי אלשיך אבו אל[ ]
    7. מסתכלאצהא לא גיר בח[ ]…

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  8. 12408Legal documentT-S 10J10.2

    The subject declares that he has no assets, and has received sustenance from his nephew Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq. According to Goitein the deed was drawn up as a defense against potential government claims that the nephew had inherited something from the uncle, and thus should be taxed; exemplifies how common it was for uncles to bequeath to their nephews.

    1. נפשי מדבר שהיה לי קדם ואפלו פרוטה לא נותרה בידי אלא
    2. אני מטריח עליו כל ימי חיי ומממנותיו אני חי ולולי רחמי שמים
    3. ובן אחי יוסף דנן הוצרכתי לישראל עתה א…

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  9. 12409LetterT-S 10J15.26

    Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Sedaqa in Tripoli, Libya, to the physician Shemuel in Cairo, thanking him for his ransom when the sender was captured by the Normans in Jerba, Ifrīqiya.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] ממלוך אל . . מא לא יטיק לסאני ען
    2. אחצאיה וען אפעאלהי אלגמילה ובלגני אן טרא עלי אצחאבנא מן אל
    3. מלכות עול וזאל ענהום ובקי קל…

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  10. 12410LetterT-S 10J20.5

    Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides.

    1. מפתח חרצובות ומשלחף עצבות ומ[ר]חק אובות[
    2. להקים חוקי משנה ולהסיר תואנה ולהדוך רוש ולענה יזכהו שוכן
    3. מעונה לבנין עיר חנה ולחזות ישועה ולשננה אני יי בעת…

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    1. looses the bands, removes sadness, dismisses the ghosts . . .

    2. (2-3) to confirm the rules of the Mishnā, to abolish any pretext, to pull dow…

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  11. 12411Legal documentT-S 12.26

    Reporting that the teacher Ṣedaqa b. Ḥalfon was wrongly accused of improper conduct by Hārūn al-Ṭārī and thereby unjustly prevented from reading the lection from the Torah.

    1. מעשה שהיה בפנ[ינו אנו החתומים מטה . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. זה כן הוה חצרנא בסנבאט יום אלסבת אל[ . . . . . ]פי אל[ . . . . . .
    3. וצלינא ואכרג אלחזאן א…

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  12. 12412Legal query or responsumT-S 12.199

    Recto: Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to Maimonides, who was active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204 CE.

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  13. 12413LetterT-S 12.214

    Recto: Letter opening to Joseph the Nagid (יהוסף, probably the Nagid Joseph b. Samuel, from the second half of the 11th century CE).

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  14. 12414LetterT-S 12.245

    The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī reported about the addressee's health and safety.

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  15. 12415LetterT-S 12.338

    Letter from Yeshu'a ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, an official in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Yeshu'a writes to raise money to free three Jews held by Italian merchants.

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    1. שלום אבירנו נכבדנו כק מר ור נהראי פאר התלמידים

    2. וכתר הנבונים ירבה אלהינו השוכן מרום לנטות

    3. עליו חוט חסדו יומם ולילה כי עמו שירו לפתוח

    4. לו …

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  16. 12416Legal documentT-S 12.446

    The groom's name is Avraham b. [...] Roṣano. The total ketubba valuation is 150 reales abū ṭāqa.

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  17. 12417Legal documentT-S 12.514

    Appears to have been torn and reused as the cover page for a literary volume, as verso has an ownership note for 'this daftar,' and a title: Alfāẓ Tafsīr wa-Ghayruh (sounds like a miscellany partly consisting of a biblical commentary) of ʿAmram b. Moshe al-Maghribī.

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  18. 12418LetterT-S 13J28.16

    Letter from an unknown parent to his or her son Manṣūr b. Faraj, in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks a female family member in the house to cut short her visit and come back as soon as possible because the writer is all alone at home, and money is short, and "it is the season" (of diseases?

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאב/י/ אליך יא ולדי ואלעזיז
    3. עלי וענדי אטאל אללה בקא[ה
    4. ואדאם תאידה עלי סלא/מ/ה
    5. ועאפיה ואערפך בוקע
    6. אלחאיט אלעאיב אלדי
    7. בגוארנא מע אלגרפה

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  19. 12419Legal documentT-S 16.110

    Yehuda Nabālī. Groom: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov Ḥabīb. Dowry is in medin currency. Witnessed by Ḥayyim Garyani (גריאני) and Meʾir Ben-Naʿim who signed on behalf of the groom and likely as scribe/witness in the lower right corner of the document (an identical ornamental ligature from the bottom of his seal is extant).

    1. בסט׳׳ו יתן י׳׳י (השם) את האשה הבאה אל ביתך כרחל וכלאה
    2. בששי בשבת בשלשה ימים לחדש טבת שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושמנים ואחת
    3. ליצירה הכא בעיר אלקאהרה הסמ…

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  20. 12420LetterT-S 16.301

    Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda ha-Bavli to Berakhot he-Haver. Shemuel writes that after searching the book dealers of Egypt for rare titles, he learned in Alexandria that the Greeks had many schools with fine scholars, and so he has made up his mind to go on to Thebes and Salonika in Greece after Passover.

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    1. בשם רחמ
    2. שלום משמי שפרה ויד ושם ותפארה וכניעת אויב
    3. ועזרה ויתר ברכות התורה הקדושה הטהורה
    4. כולם יהיו זר ונזר ועטרה וצפירת תפארה
    5. על ראש כגק מר ור ב…

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  21. 12421Legal documentT-S 24.5

    Dated: Adar 1422 Seleucid, which is February–March 1111 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (who died in December of the same year).

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  22. 12422List or tableT-S Ar.35.188

    However it is notable that the first page (verso, left side) is headed with the name of al-Qāḍī Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Ayyūb(?), and the specific transactions reference government bureaus in several places, e.g.

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  23. 12423List or tableT-S Ar.35.263

    Yūsuf al-Wāsiṭī... a Sicilian coppersmith (ṣāniʿ nuḥās siqillī)... sayyid ʿUthmān... ʿImrān b. Makārim who collected money for a fine blanket (malḥafa rafīʿa)...

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  24. 12424Legal documentT-S Ar.38.27

    The other side: Remnants of another legal document (two witness statements) and, in large letters, a pious statement and a note mentioning the daughter of al-Sharīf Ibrāhīm b. Ṭāhir al-[...]. The document seems to be repurposed for something, perhaps in a clothing item given the remnants of stitching-like holes on its edges.

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  25. 12425Legal documentT-S Ar.39.189

    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).

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    2. The slaves report the death of ʿAlāʾ, daughter of Bū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Bū Saʿd [on]

    3. Thursday, the …

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  26. 12426Legal documentT-S AS 144.7

    The word contante/קונטאנאי appears at the top indicating what is "counted" among the dowry list such as: cotton waistcoat, silk garments, a wooden chest, among other items. Groom: Yosef b. Yiṣḥāq Pinto. Bride: Senyora bt. Avraham. The bride is listed as a previously widowed, ארמלתא.

    1. בע׳׳ה בסט׳׳ו ובנים ועושר והרוחה כי׳׳ר קונטאנטי סך י׳׳ב אלפ מ׳׳ך
    2.                     מתרכתא
    3. שידך היקר ונע׳ לשט׳׳ו כה׳׳ר יוסף פינטו יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר המ׳ יצ…

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  27. 12427LetterT-S AS 149.130 + T-S AS 149.134

    In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (identified by Oded Zinger). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  28. 12428LetterT-S AS 150.17

    The addressee is now asked to show it to the judge Rabbi Yeḥiel (likely Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim, active 1213–33 CE) and look into it and help extricate the sender from some legal dispute.

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  29. 12429List or tableT-S AS 153.287

    Yiftaḥ the cantor and beadle, and Hilāl the brother of Bū l-Majd the cantor (= probably Meʾir b. Yakhin). Verso: Arabic accounts. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  30. 12430State documentT-S AS 176.257

    Reused for a receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (see separate entry).

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  31. 12431List or tableT-S AS 202.415

    The next mentions Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. [...]. The next is a list of books belonging to a certain cantor: אגזא ערביה וגזו מגלד חזאנה וכראריס פירוש וה כראריס וגזוין לטאף חזאנה.

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  32. 12432Literary textT-S C2.209 + T-S F13.1 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL B 5446 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5

    Secondary use: Efrayim b. Shemarya (11th c) uses and reworks passages from the Sheʾiltot of Aḥay of Shabḥa (8th c) for a sermon.

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  33. 12433LetterT-S G1.22

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, in Bilbays to Berakhot ha-Sar, presumably in Fustat.

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  34. 12434Paraliterary textT-S K6.124

    The name of the scribe is deleted and the name of a new owner, Avraham b. Saʿadya, is added below the colophon. (Information from CUDL.)

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  35. 12435Legal documentT-S K25.171

    First page in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), second page in another hand.

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  36. 12436LetterT-S K25.196 + T-S Ar.47.233

    Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE).

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  37. 12437LetterT-S Misc.28.190

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded.

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  38. 12438LetterT-S Misc.35.44

    Letter from Yoshiyya Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. The sender's name is partially preserved at the top of the letter, in a different hand to the body of the letter.

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    1. יאשיהו ראש יש[יבת] גאון יעקב בירבי

    2. שלום אביעה וברכות ארגיעה [

    3. בכל שעה ואורה וישועה א[ל אהובנו רב אפרים]

    4. המומחה מפינו אנו בית ד[ין הגדול…

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  39. 12439Legal documentT-S NS 96.66

    Right column: Petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife Khulla bt.

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    1.                             عبدها مسلم بن عبد الجبار

    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت

    3. قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله ب…

    Verso, right column

    1. His slave Muslim ibn Abd al-Jabbār.
    2. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionte. Registered. 

    3. My lord the glorious jud…

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  40. 12440LetterT-S NS 163.29

    Addressed to either Mevorakh or [...] b. Mevorakh. Various reports are given. Mentions al-Fuqqāʿī, al-ghilmān, Abū l-Maʿānī.

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  41. 12441List or tableT-S NS 225.82

    ; Mufaḍḍal; a ḥawwāla for Ibn al-Kāmukhī; a ruqʿa; Bū l-Ḥasan; Abū Saʿd; Jalāl al-Mulk; Bū l-Munā; Yosef; al-Guzūlī; Avraham; Faḍāʾil the cantor; Futūḥ; al-Sadīd al-Ḥarīrī; Hilāl; [...] b. Efrayim; Isḥāq. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century based on the typical names.

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  42. 12442LetterT-S NS 304.5

    A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that his aunt's daughter (?)

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  43. 12443Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 321.28

    A teacher, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Riḍā al-ʿAṭṭār confirms that he has received 12 dirhams for teaching 3 children for the duration of the months Av and Elul.

    1. בש רח
    2. וקבצת איצא ען אב ואלול גמיעא
    3. אתני עשר דרהם ען אלתלתה צגאר
    4. והם אבן הלאל אלסקא ואבן בנת כלף
    5. אלדי הו אבן דקאק אלרז ואבן בנת
    6. מסכה וכתב אבו אלחסן א…

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    1. And I received also for the months of Av and Elul together
    2. 12 dirhems  for the three little boys,
    3. namely:  the son of Hilal, the water carri…

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  44. 12444LetterT-S NS 323.7 + T-S 10J32.12

    Circular letter, written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, addressed to an unnamed community. After the opening salutations in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and praises for the righteousness of the addressees, they are admonished to contribute toward the upkeep of the synagogue at Dammūh.

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  45. 12445List or tableT-S NS J200

    Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1058 (Gil). Details several small amounts of money and their sum – 250 dinars.

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    1. [  ]נה בידי מן [. . . .] דינ

    2. בוציר ⳽ דינ

    3. אבנה ⳽ דינ              בידי יעקוב [     ]

    4. ספר ק ק דינ            מרדוך ה וסדס וחב…

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    1. [    ] ... in my possession from ... dīnārs
    2. Būṣīr: ½ dīnār
    3. His son: ½ dīnār                 in my possession. Yaʿqūb
    4. traveled. 200…

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  46. 12446LetterT-S NS J430

    Probably written by Hillel b. Eli (dated documents 1066–1108). Information from Goitein's note card.

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  47. 12447Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    The five brothers swear a "solemn oath on the B[lessed] N[ame]" that they will not transfer ownership of any property within their parents' inheritance to any third party. […] The scribe and second witness of this entry is listed as Shelomo Somekh. MCD.

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    :(Document 6) Folio 2r  

    1. [בהי]ות שהר׳ שמואל הלוי פוריך ידיע שוקיר נפטר לבית עולמו והשאיר אחריו ברכה חמשה בנים הר׳ אלי[עזר]
    2. והר׳ יאודה יצ׳׳ו וה…

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  48. 12448Legal documentBL OR 12369.10

    The document BL OR 12369.10 bears two witness signatures, one very stylized Yiṣḥaq Shelomo[?] al-____[?] and the other more legible: David ha-Levi Caraso.

    1. [בע]׳׳ה 
    2. לפ[ני]נו עדי[ם] החתומים מטה בא היקר 
    3. כה׳׳ר סי׳ אברהם שאש[א]נו(?) יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר
    4. ח׳ דוד בירא יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר משה הכן יצ׳׳ו והודו
    5. הודאה(…

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  49. 12449Legal documentAIU VII.D.17

    Engagement deed and trousseau list dated 25 June 1789 CE (1 Tammuz 5549 AM) between Yaʿaqov Rosano b. Avraham Rosano and the widow Miryam bt. Shabbetay Sakāḥ(?)

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    1. בסט׳׳ו ובנים ועושר והרוחה גדול יהיה כבוד הבית הזה וכו׳ בפעח׳׳מ ש[ידך]
    2. הבחור ונחמד החתן המפואר חמד בחורים ותפארתם כה׳׳ר …

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  50. 12450Legal documentAIU VII.D.79

    Other landmarks are given, including one named after [...] b. Avraham, and the courtyard of Abū Ayyūb.

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