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Middle third of Shevaṭ 1441 Seleucid (1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1441 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Settlement between Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Bārūtī of Qalyūb and the daughter of his late brother Abū l-Faḍl who was also his business partner.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen allows us to tentatively date the letter to the last years of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1138–39) when there was a mutiny against the government, and Maṣliaḥ picked the wrong side, so that many Jews were jailed and Maṣliaḥ himself was executed in 1139.

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• state
• torture

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query addressed to Maṣliaḥ Gaon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b.

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• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items that he told Ḥalfon to purchase for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Khalaf also asks Ḥalfon to apologize on his behalf to two cantors in Fustat for not having responded to their letters.

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• india

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Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid (22 December, 1131 – 19 January, 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Marriage payments: 1 + 10 = 11. This means that Sitt al-Jamīʿ was extremely poor.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• marriage

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Shevaṭ 1442 Seleucid (1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon (autograph) to a communal leader or judge Avraham, in Malīj.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (1100–38), with a reshut formula indicating that it was drawn up in the time of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Abū l-Munā Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq, who had recently arrived from Damascus, grants power of attorney to Faraj b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi, mentioning Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Unusual formulae: פאסתכשפת מנא אנן חתומי מטה קציה אלחאל פי דלך . . .

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Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid (1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written under the jurisdiction of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and, unusually, he also signs the validation giving his full name.

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Document date

first decade of Nisan 1433 Seleucid (19 March, 1132 – 28 March, 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: first decade of Nisan 1433 Seleucid = March 1132 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Signed by Eliyya b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver, Hillel b.

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1127 – 1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on the references to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (last line). Detailing the purchase of half a house in Cairo that was conveyed by inheritance.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns the controversy caused by a Persian Jew, the nephew of the exilarch in Baghdad, who came to Aden and opposed the invocation of the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon in the qaddish prayer. Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq supported Maṣliaḥ and was the only one willing to set the controversy down in writing; the other Jews of Aden were too afraid to do so.

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• ib4
• india
• testimony

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Document date

Ṭevet 1444 Seleucid (11 December, 1132 – 8 January, 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: mentions Ṭevet 1444 of the Seleucid Era (= 1132/33 CE), and written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A few words from the reshut formula are preserved, but it is not possible to tell if Maṣliaḥ Gaon or Shemuel b. Hananya is intended. Fāḍila bt.

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Ḥeshvan 1450 Seleucid (1138 CE)

Dated: Ḥeshvan [14]50 Seleucid, which is approximately October 1138 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yehuda Ibn al-Nisṭāṣ (see T-S NS 224.18 + T-S NS 225.25c for either the same person or a family member) cedes for 10 dinars his right of 1/12 of an open space (misṭāḥ) in the al-Qālūs street to Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b.

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Document date

3 Heshvan 1449 Seleucid (20 October, 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He had with him a container (mikḥala) of musk that was destined for Ḥalfon, but the head of the Jews, Maṣliāh Gaon, took the container from him before he traveled (r27–38). […] Khalaf concludes with regards for Maṣliaḥ Gaon; for Ḥalfon's brother ʿEli Nezer ha-Maskilim; and for "the congregations."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
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Document date

1131 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He annulled the practice of mentioning the authority of the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (at that time Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, based in the Egyptian capital) in prayer and legal documents.

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• 12th c
• communal
• ib4
• india
• yemen

3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (1100–38) and from the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Lists numerous conditions that the husband will comply with and how he will have to divorce his wife and pay her ketubba in full if he violates these conditions.

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• marital reconciliation

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevasser) turned to Masliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–39), in Fustat and asked him to place the ban on Ibn al-Qābisī.

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• apostasy
• conversion
• excommunication
• yeshiva

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Document date

Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid (17 November, 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid = 17 November 1134 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. The parties are the Qaraite Ḥalfon b. Ismāʿīl (?

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The greetings at the end confirm the closeness of Khalaf to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon and to the family members of Ḥalfon (and they shed light on some questions, such as how many brothers Ḥalfon had).

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2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In particular, he has been shaken by the deaths of his brother and the death of 'our diadem and crown and master and head' (v19–21); Goitein concludes that the references are to Ḥalfon's brother ʿEli and to the head of the Yeshiva, Maṣliah Gaon. Presumably, Ḥalfon wrote these drafts during the period he spent in Alexandria upon his return from the West to Egypt in April 1139 CE.

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• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• illness: grief
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3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, the word appears with Abū l-Manṣūr's name rather than his mother's, and the word is unambiguously part of his own name in ENA 2806.4, his petition to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. It may be a toponym referring to one of the villages called Qubayba near Jerusalem, especially if this is the same man called al-Muqaddasī/al-Maqdisī in T-S 6J4.12.

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• business
• family

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Document date

Monday night, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (1132 CE)

By the decree ("marsūm") of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (probably after the request of the woman's father: see T-S 8.131), a committee of eight elders (all undersigned) was appointed in order to confirm and fix the alimony for Ṣedaqa's wife and child.

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• alimony
• divorce

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Document date

1449 Seleucid (1138 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuʾel, and written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE). On verso is a witness's attestation in Arabic script dated 5 Jumādā II 538 AH.

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• arabic attestation
• damin
• damin2
• dimme
• lost archive
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Document date

last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid (10 October, 1126 – 19 October, 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This was before the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39) and hence there is no reshut clause.

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• contract
• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1127–38, based on the tenure of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written by a scribe on her behalf (Goitein: "A refreshing mixture of the accomplished style of a court clerk and the woman's ipsissima verba").

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• appeal
• communal
• disability
• disability: vision
• disability: women's
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natanʾel in al-Ghuwwa, Yemen, ca. summer 1131, concerning the controversy over the reshut of Maṣliaḥ gaʾon over the Jews of Yemen and the collection on behalf of the yeshiva in Fustat. […] The letter seems not to know that the villages had refrained from contributing that year — a rumor based on the exilarch's preventing the congregation from saying the reshut clause in the name of Maṣliaḥ gaʾon. Yaʿaqov b. Salīm points out that only two villages had not yet contributed, and that when their contribution came, the total contribution of the villages would be 404 dinars, a good amount according to Yaʿaqov b.

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• aden
• al-ghuwwa
• communal controversy
• contributions
• halfon ha-levi b. netan`el
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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1453 Seleucid (1141 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Soc, II, 513, sec. 18) served as secretary of the Damascus branch of the Jerusalem yeshiva, but accompanied Maṣliaḥ Gaon, when he opened a Cairene branch in 1127.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Maṣliaḥ Gaon, in Fustat. Dating: 1127–38 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: delirium
• illness: enemies
• illness: mental
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His untrained hand, poor style and substandard language, replete with vulgar forms and other orthographic irregularities, prove the wisdom of his normal practice.}" Also of note: Maṣliaḥ Gaon is sick with "the stone" (al-ḥaṣā), i.e., a urinary stone (r17).

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• arabic literary
• arabic poetry
• hamas
• ib2
• illness
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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Petition to Masliah Gaon from a woman wishing to have a divorce.

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• arabic script
• communal
• divorce
• illness
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