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Arabic

It could be a draft or was later reused for scribal practice, also in chancery hand. "...wa-yasʾal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-l-iḥsān ilayhi...". The petition is addressed to a Fatimid caliph due to the taqbīl and the adjective "al-maqām al-ṭāhir al-nabawī". The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings to the Fatimid caliph al-ʾĀmir and hence could be addressed to him.

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• dimme
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov al-Dar'i, who was active in Alexandria around 1100 (see Goitein, Med Soc, v. 1, pp. 53, 407 fn 45: v. 3, p. 481 fn 171: v. 4, p. 399 fn 84: v. 5, p. 591 fn 173. See also Cohen, Jewish Self Government, pp 215 and 241-2, for a discussion of a letter in which Natan b. Yehuda accuses al-Dar'i of causing his death). The verso is also a letter, though it is unclear whether the two are related.

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Document date

516/521 Hijrī (1123–1127 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with goods on which duties were imposed. He had already registered documents in the court of the qāḍī al-quḍāh Jalāl al-Mulk Tāj al-Aḥkam (Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. […] Information from Khan; see also linked Goitein notes.

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• dimme
• ib6
• india book
• petition
• yemen

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-ʿAni; Ṭāhir. Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū ʿAlī, Hillel the blind (al-ḍarīr), Menaḥem, and al-ʿAsqalānī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. […] Furthermore, Alexandria was known for its characteristic prayer customs, to which the Alexandrian Jewish community adhered with zeal; see for example the responsa sent by Saadya b. […] On the active followers of Avraham Maimonides in Alexandria see Goitein, 'Our Rabbi Avraham,' Trabitz 33 (1964): 181-197.

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• communal
• petition

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19 Ramaḍān 504/29 Ramaḍān 504 Hijrī (1 April 1111–11 April 1111 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Abī l-Layth, the head of the Diwān al-Taḥqīq (aka Dīwān al-Majlis), 501–27 AH: "Al-Afḍal established an office known as dīwān al-taḥqīq in the year 501 AH and appointed as its head the Christian Abu al-Barakāt Yuḥannā b. […] Yuḥannā remained in this appointment until he was removed in 527 AH and was killed in 528 AH (Ibn Muyassar, Akhbār Miṣr, 77, 108, al-Nuwayri, Nihāyat al-'arab XXVI, 81; al-Maqrīzī, ltti'āẓ al-ḥunafāʾ III, 39, 43, 75, 126, 148, Khiṭaṭ I 441, 488 [= Ibn al-Maʾmūn, Akhbār Miṣr, 21, 11]). […] Some sources, in fact, refer to the office as dīwān al-taḥqīq wa-l-majlis, e.g. aI-Shayyāl, Majmūʿat al-wathāʾiq al-Fāṭimiyya, 325:14.

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• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• diwan al-majlis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic sent to Shemuel Ḥalafta in Fusṭāṭ, perhaps from his brother, rebuking him for the lack of letters ("your poor mother's heart is confounded on your account"). Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Gabbay. "Your sister and Munsiyya and Yeḥiel [send their regards]." Regards are sent to [...] al-Ḥāmī, al-Sitt al-Muṣaffa (?), al-talmidim Muhadhdhab and Yehuda, al-Zaqen Abū Pinḥas, al-Shaykh Pinḥas, and Avraham.

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• halafta
• late ja

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in al-Mahdiyya, to her mother (Av)Dukia al-Rumiyya and to her sister Rini, in Alexandria. Scribed by Kalev al-Sofer. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer had a married daughter as well as a son who had been away for eight years. "I am working as a maid in every house, and my strength has weakened." She also mentions her sons Ibrāhīm and Moshe. VMR. Information in part from CUDL

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• byzantines
• women's letter

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Document date

Late Tevet 4903 Anno Mundi (January 1143 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Court record regulating the inheritance of the estate left behind by a Jewish merchant who drowned at sea near Alexandria. His estate was transferred to the Jewish court of Alexandria by the Sahib al-Mawarith (the Muslim judge in charge of estates). […] Nethanel, who was from Alexandria. (Information from Frenkel; Goitein sets the date as Tevet 4903/January 1143).

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• register

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Tammuz 1461 Seleucid (27 June 1150–25 July 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Ayyūb (aka ʿUlla b. Iyov ha-Levi); Abū l-Khayr al-Khayyāṭ and Abū Saʿd al-Khabbāz; and Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Khabbāz.

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10 Ḥeshvan 1531 Seleucid (21 October 1219 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo to Alexandria due to debts writes to his sister, who still resided in Cairo, to ask for her help. […] See also T-S 8J20.26.

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• alexandria
• crusade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: skin
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17 Tammuz 1513 Seleucid (12 July 1202 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202. Maḍmun reports on the murder of al-Malik al-Muʿizz, who had claimed to be caliph, and the ascension of al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ayyūb as the new caliph. […] The recipient is addressed by the titles al-Muwaffaq ('the Successful'), al-Amīn (al-Dawla) ('Trustee (of the Government)'), and al-Saʿīd ('the Auspicious').

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book
• yemen

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Document date

Kislev 4917 Anno Mundi (16 November 1156–15 December 1156 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A legal authority in Alexandria [...] b. Meshullam writes to the judges of Fustat and Cairo, the representatives of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] The buyer was an Alexandrian Jew, and Abū l-Munā bought the 8 moulds from that buyer. […] When the authorities in Alexandria saw this, they allowed the cheese to be sold.

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• certificate
• cheese
• crete
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
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Primary language

Arabic

One side: A muwashshaḥ by al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī (d. 1126). The other side: More difficult to read, but also contains poetic phrases (ḥumrat al-ward...).

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• arabic poetry
• muwashshah

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Arabic

Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community of Jews. Could also be a drafft.

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Arabic

Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having been a mamlūk of the late Fatimid vizier Asad ai-Din Shirkūh). The petitioner, Ṭāhir, had rented a shop in Alexandria from a Christian and paid all the installments of rent; he would like to be released from further payment. Dating: ca. 1199–1200, when Qarāqūsh served as regent for the grandson of Saladin, al-Malik al-Manṣūr, and before 1201 CE, when Qarāqūsh fled because al-Malik al-Manṣūr's uncle, aI-Malik al-Afḍal, took over the regency; Qaraqūsh died in 597/1201.

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• isfahsalar
• petition

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The amir Jamāl al-Dīn now requires the community to send him 10 of their elders. The sender asks for at least nine men by name: al-Raṣuy, al-Rashīd, Fakhr al-Dawla, ʿAfīf, Abū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār al-Levi, Abū l-Majd al-Kohen, Hiba b. David, al-Kohen al-Bazzāz, the teacher R. Nissim. Same scribe as T-S AS 165.135 (a mystical or pietistic treatise) and likely T-S 8J6.16 (Efrayim b.

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• david i maimonides
• nagid

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Judaeo-Arabic

Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though it's not entirely clear how Goitein and Frenkel determined that the addressee is in Alexandria). […] People mentioned: Binyām; "all the merchants"; Muslim; a young man with a squint (ṣabiyy aḥwal); al-Maghribī; and Ibn Shekhanya. Also mentions an auction at Dār Ibn Nājiya. (Information in part from Frenkel and Goitein's attached notes; the document is also cited in Med Soc.

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Document date

26 Rabīʿ II 504 Hijrī (11 November 1110 CE)

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Arabic

Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk sayf al-dawla wa-[...]hā b. al-M[...]m ṣanīʿat amīr al-muʾminīn...). […] Ḥammūd, a Muslim funduqānī (proprietor of a caravanserai), undertakes to transport to the Ṣināʿa ("the Arsenal"), the river port of Old Cairo, all falat (goods that had evaded the payment of dues) and all those for which customs had to be paid, whether they had been brought to his own place or to other caravanserais, or had otherwise come to his knowledge.

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• customs
• dimme
• funduq
• tax
• tax evasion

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Document date

8 Rabīʿ I 405 Hijrī (6 September 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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• arabic script
• daman
• dimme
• fiscal
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Arabic

; the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are several headers on both the right and left page. The left page is headed al-ḥaml (shipping/transport) followed by "to the well-established treasury" (ilā al-khizāna al-maʿmūra al-mawlawiyya. . . . ). The reference to al-khizāna al-maʿmūra suggests a Fatimid fiscal context, though it is unusual for a fiscal document to use Coptic numerals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. He found another copy with his brother's son in al-Maḥalla and plans to go get it and send it to Moshe. He will also send the two 'little qawls' (piyyuṭim?) which he'd mentioned, on the subject of love. On verso, he asks Moshe to send him two pots with dates, for those he received were spoiled, and he discarded them in Minya Zifta. He also sends his greetings to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and Abū l-Maʿālī.

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• minyat zifta
• moshe b. levi

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). […] Daniel, ca. 1082–94) and other notables. Also mentions Shemuʾel Ibn al-Dayyān and Abū Yaʿaqov Yiṣḥaq, and that "these converts adhere to religion better than the Jews."

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• converts

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Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note to Abū l-Riḍā ha-Talmid ha-Vatiq (appears also in T-S 10J4.14 (PGPID 3017) as al-Wathīq). Dating: ca. early 13th century. […] If the addressee wishes to loan his own copy to Abū l-Faraj, and then the sender will give him his own copy or Raḍiyy al-Dawla's copy, then he should do so. al-Talmid al- involving someone named Raḍiyy al-Dawla, a copy to be made, and Abū l-Faraj. […] The only phrase preserved is "S[anad?] al-Dawla."

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• informal note

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef is mentioned. There are also references to the Sicilian cities of Māzar and al-Madīna (Palermo). Also mentions the departure of the qāʾid Ibn al-Thumna (d. 1062) from Palermo (וקד רחל בן אלתמנה ען אלמדינה).

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