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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions goods sent on ship of Nāṣir al-Dawla (active ca. 1062-1072) who ephemerally ruled over Alexandria and upper Egypt during the Shidda ʿUẓma in al-Mustanṣir's time. "In the ship of the Amir Nasir al-Dawla I sent you thirty-one new large skins of oil, measuring sixty-two matars; on their stoppers the names Salama and Judah are engraved. […] I hope everything will arrive. It is all in the hands of 'Abd al-Rahman b. All b. Habib Sfaqsi."

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• coin
• flax
• ibn sughmar
• nasir al-dawla
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

of sal ammoniac which will be collected either by Ibn al-Shammās or Abū l-Riḍā, who will pay half of the proceeds to Hilāl, and what remains [...] for the rental fee. He also asked if Abū l-Riḍā travels to al-Andalus, so that he can provide his goods to him." Recto states that Abū l-Mufaḍḍal (a person with this kunya appears in many of ʿArūs's accounts) sent two burniyyas; also mentions someone's brother in law; a thawb; Socotran aloe; and a qārūra of silver.

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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September 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] In which ha-Levi mentions the exaggerated honors the Jews of Alexandria bestowed on him, especially Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. […] In the continuation, he responds to Ḥalfon’s "depression and sadness of heart," which is also mentioned in IV, 92. Yehuda ha-Levi explains that this is a natural response to Ḥalfon's grief over the death of his brother ʿEli.

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• ib4
• india book

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17 Muḥarram 1242 Hijrī (21 August 1826 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: Monday 17 Muḥarram 1242 H (1826 CE). The riverboat captain al-rayyis Ismaʿīl Surūr al-Jawīsh receives a payment of 7500 niṣf fiḍḍa (medin) for delivering a shipment of 150 ardabb of rice from Rashīd to the "commercial warehouse for official rice fodder" located in Cairo's northern Nile port of Būlāq. […] The contract is signed by two witnesses and the scribe: ʿAlī Sirḥān al-Nūrī(?), Ḥusnī al-ʿAjala al-D___(?), and Muḥammad al-Fanās. Verso: Brief an order of payment/exchange that seems to be unrelated to the recto transaction because the boat captain mentioned is instead, al-rayyis Ibrahīm.

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• dimme
• rice

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5 Ṣafar 570 Hijrī (5 September 1174 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

There are four discrete entries on this page and 6 entries on the next page. All or almostall begin with a name, then specify the rent for specific properties, often followed by "al-murājaʿ ʿan {another name}." The epithet "al-Ismāʿīlī" appears several times, and "the neighborhood of the Ismāʿīlīs" (ḥārat al-ismāʿīliyya) at least once. All the entries have an elongated mīm to the left.

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• dimme

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Hebrew

It is not clear where he is — perhaps in Saite (l. 4); at any rate it seems to be beyond Alexandria for someone writing from Fustat (l. 15). […] That this is not merely a nickname or a calqued expression is clear from the fact that it is given with the Greek definite article, and in the accusative case to suit the context. The spelling of "Alexandria" is also typically Greek. The writer's Hebrew reveals various signs of the influence of spoken Greek (see the notes). The addressee is presumably also a Greek-speaker, otherwise she would not understand the Greek phrase in line 18."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. A man named Ibn al-Qābisī, who was banned from the Jewish community in four different cities in Iberia (Granada, Lucena, Cordoba, and Seville), arrived in Alexandria, and his relatives in the city demand that the local judge also apply the ban against him; the judge hesitates to do so, since he was informed that the man had threatened to embrace Islam (יפשע) if he was excommunicated again. […] Additionally mentions Ibn Jarrāḥ, Ibn al-Jazzār; the house of a wedding; the late Rabbenu רפיא(?). (Information mainly from Frenkel.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• apostasy
• conversion
• excommunication
• yeshiva

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Document date

First third of Adar 1483 Seleucid (February 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The record, emerging from the court of Maimonides, involves Ghalīb al-Bilbaysī b. Ṣedaqa, agent of Sayyid al-Kull Moshe b. ʿAbdallāh (ʿOvadya) Ibn al-Ḥallā the ḥazzan, who releases Abū al-Makārim Ibn Nufayʿ and Nadiv b. Moshe ha-Levi (who may also be a member of the Ibn Nufayʿ family, see T-S AS 148.5 (PGPID 4164))from a partnership.

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• partnership

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Arabic

The writer describes the conditions in Ascalon against the background of the Turcoman/Seljuk invasions, and how he traveled from Ascalon to Jerusalem and visited his abandoned house to recover some books, but only found dafātir and maṣāḥif that had been destroyed by the damp. The girl, al-Jawziyya, whom he had wanted to marry in Ascalon, had become engaged to somebody else. There ensued a legal struggle which involved an official titled Sitr al-Dawla, apparently Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ma'mūn Yaḥyā Ibn Kātib al-Baṭā'iḥī, who became the vizier in Egypt following al-Afḍal. At the time of the present letter, he was evidently the Fatimid governor in Ascalon. His son Jamāl al-Mullk (Mūsā) is also mentioned, who later became the general of the Fatimid army in Palestine and who lived in Ascalon.

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• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• fatimid officials

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Arabic

Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals and access to water — insofar as one can judge. […] The joins of the decree fragment when pieced together refer to the need of restoring the area surrounding the gulf/bay - 'li ḥāja dāʿiya ilā ʿimārat al-khuluj' and the allotment of irrigation from these canals: 'aqsaṭ min al-rī min hādhihi l-khuluj. […] Join: Roni Shweka (bottom six fragments) and Rebecca Sebbagh (top fragment). Before 1055. See also Mosseri VI.117.2, which may belong to the left side of this decree.

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• canal
• decree
• dimme
• fatimid
• irrigation
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many fragments. On verso there are also fragments of a siddur in a different hand (which enables identifying these as a join). […] - a dispute over money owed between Ṣedaqa and Ṣāʿid. Also mentions a qāḍī and 5 elders. - a list of names underneath: [...] b. […] Khalfa; "the guarantor" (ḍāmin al-darak); Manṣūr - a debt of 9 5/8 of something, with 1/2 to be paid each month - Sālim b. [...] al-Ḥalabī; Sālim b.

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• qadi

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer reports that a Jew coming on a boat from Tyre has announced the arrival in Fustat of Naʿīm b. ʿImrān, who probably lived in al-Mahdiyya. The writer also asks for news from the Maghrib, particularly concerning his father, Nahray.

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• alexandria
• nahray b. nissim

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... […] On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line.

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• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Arabic

A tentative reading of the first line could be "al-Malik Muʿizz al-Dawla". If the reading is correct, the document could be dated to the time of the Fatimid caliph al-ʾĀmir. For [Abū Manṣūr Maḥmūd Murhaf al-Dīn] Muʿizz al-Dawla [wa-Shujāʿuhā] Cf. T-S Ar.40.37 (PGPID 8264).

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• dimme

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Inferred date

5 June 1056–5 June 1056 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ismaʿīl, probably in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, 5 June 1056. Deals mainly with financial matters, mentions bills of exchange, a letter sent to Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ, and sending a pouch containing 83 1/2 dinars as cash. Also talks about a sale of tin and reports the arrival of a ship from Palermo with worthless goods.

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• ibn al-ba'ba'
• order of payment
• sicily
• suftaja
• tin

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Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably 1063. Mentions several types of goods as almonds and gems. Mentions “ha-Nasi” (the leader) and his letter. Also mentions the disagreement with Abu Zikri b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter requesting charity in which the petitioner describes that he is unemployed, starving, from a distant land (al-Raḥba), and has ‘uncovered his face’ to the addressee. The location al-Raḥba may refer to the medieval fortress town in eastern Syria on the Euphrates (near modern-day al-Miyādīn). There is also a village Raḥba in northern Lebanon. EMS/MCD.

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• communal
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, aunt and mother, all called 'al-Sitt al-Maṣūna.' Also mentions Levi, Shelomo, Yosef, Elʿazar, and Shabbetay, among others.

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• 16th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. […] The writer lists the goods that he wants to be bought for him in Fustat. Also writes information about ships, including the news about one ship that was attacked and forced to stop in Djerba Island. )Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #461) VMR

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• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:407, no. 45) VMR The deed was confirmed in al-Mahdiyya and again in Alexandria. See also T-S 20.129 (PGPID 7539).

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• register
• spain

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Arabic

Mentions شرعي, and قبضت. Also contains an ʿalāma in the margin (al-ḥamdu li-llāh mutaallī l-bashāʾir?). There is another (later) document on the verso mentioning Futūḥ b. Ismaʿīl al-[?]. Few lines are preserved. There are pinholes in the margin.

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Document date

Sivan 1549 Seleucid (16 May 1238–14 June 1238 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso seem to be two copies of the same document or related documents, one in Judaeo-Arabic and the other in Arabic script. Begins "Aḥālanī al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Parnas ʿalāal-Shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥarīrī...."

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Heshvan 1549 Seleucid (17 May 1238–14 June 1238 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso seem to be two copies of the same document or related documents, one in Judaeo-Arabic and the other in Arabic script. Begins "Aḥālanī al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Parnas ʿalāal-Shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥarīrī...."

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Jumādā II 470 Hijrī (20 December 1077–17 January 1078 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a shipment sent to Alexandria with the name Zakkār b. ʿAmmār written on it. […] The subsequent entries may mention the term 'mirwad' (applicator for kohl) several times. The name Ismāʿīl b. al-Bāqī(?) also appears. On verso there are additional accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Arabic

Mentions two shops in Fustat, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. This Mūsā might be identical with Moshe b. (Abū Sahl) Levi ha-Levi. There is also an Abū l-Ḥasan mentioned. Recto: a later addendum to the legal deed (written after it was torn up) also mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan.

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• moshe b. levi ha-levi

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Arabic

The document mentions a mosque (al-masjid) numerous times. It seems to be about the mosque rather than simply citing it as as landmark, since it also refers to the mosque's administrator (mutawallī al-masjid al-madhkūr).

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Document date

637 Hijrī (3 August 1239–22 July 1240 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat for the Jewish oculist (al-yahūdī al-kaḥḥāl) Makārim b. Isḥāq, known from several other documents. […] Mentions that the sum is "out of the that which was extracted by the government employee in Fustat" (mimmā ustukhrija ʿalā yad al-mustakhdam bi-miṣr). There are two ʿalāʾim partially preserved at the top.

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• ayyubid taxation

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Document date

4870 Anno Mundi (28 August 1109–16 September 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Spanish hand. concerning monetary issues between Isḥāq b. Asher (appears also in T-S 10J13.1 (PGPID 7878)) and Khallūf al-Fāsī. […] Concerning a sum of 107 dinars that must be repaid before Passover. Also mentions Latakia (לאדקיא). On recto there are business accounts with some entries cricled.

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Arabic

Mubārak to (his brother?) Abū Naṣr [...] b. al-Mubārak al-jahbadh, in al-Maḥalla. A basmala and the opening four lines are preserved on recto; the address is preserved on verso. The sender swears by God and the Torah that the addressee should not refrain from burdening him with any errands. The sender also says he plans to send some items to someone.

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• jahbadh

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Arabic

Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase al-malikī al-ẓāfirī, followed by hādhihī l-mukātaba ilā l-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī(?).

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Arabic

One addresses a vizier (al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī); one conveys blessings for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 1101–30); and some are directed at amirs, one of whom is titled Nāhiḍ al-Dawla.

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Primary language

Aramaic

Bill of divorce (get), from Mahalla al-Kabirah. The husband's name is Mu'amar b. Tuviah. […] Signed by Nissim b. Shiloh (signed also on TS 16.140 from 1121) and Yehuda b. El'azar, who also wrote the document.

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• get

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Inferred date

1100–1150 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

From the cantor Thābit al-Kohen known as Ibn al-Munajjim to "al-ḥaḍra al-shaykhiyya al-dīwāniyya."

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• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity

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Arabic

A fiscal document, mentioning several sums of money including 600 dirhams, and "min al-khidma al-saʿīda". On verso, there is also Hebrew literary text.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Table of names in Judaeo-Arabic. Including al-Ḥaver Abū Sahl; Fahd; Ṣadaqa b. al-Qalʿī; Yūsuf al-Khayyāṭ; his brother Ṣāliḥ; Sulaymān al-Ḍarīr ('the blind').

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Arabic

Involving the Christian [...]ūn b. Asʿad al-Naṣrānī al-ʿAṣṣār and Nāṣir al-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm and a cow. Needs further examination.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a person who asks for a loan to pay his capitation tax. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. Also mentions Abū l-ʿIzz. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century.

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Primary language

Arabic

Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. […] (Information from Khan, ALAD.) EMS

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• caliph
• internal memorandum
• officials
• petition
• report
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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: May be a will of a woman (mentions the term وصية several times and في صحة عقلها), also mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maghribī. Verso: Possibly a letter or state correspondence in Arabic script.

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Arabic

Unidentified notes in Arabic script. One phrase reads "al-amīr al-ajall al-awḥad Jamāl al-Dīn [...]." Reused for the morning blessings with Judaeo-Arabic liturgical instructions.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The term maṣabbāt (something to do with metal casting) appears twice. Also refers to al-ḥajar al-nuqra (ingots) and sabk (founding, casting) and suḥāla (filings).

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• metal

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Arabic

Mentions [...] b. Isḥāq al-Yahūdī and it seems the phrase "ʿabīd al-yahūd" (slaves of the Jews) or perhaps "ʿAbīd al-Yahūd[iyya]" (= (Sitt al-)ʿAbīd the Jewish woman).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The naems include Ḥannā b. Najjār, Manṣūr al-ʿAbasni (?), ʿAlīal-Anṭālī (?), and Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Baghdādī.

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• account

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Arabic

Reused for jottings. Mentions al-muqṭaʿ. The first long line mentions al-Shaykh al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dawla Ibn Ṭāhir [...].

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• iqta'

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions names such as al-muʿallim Yaʿīsh; Yūsuf al-Ṭabīb; mawlā al-dayyān; [...] al-Naṣrānī; Abū Ḥamīd.

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Document date

14 Iyyar 1527 Seleucid (4 May 1216 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] Ṣadoq had made a taqqana and collected signatures of important Alexandrians such as Abū Saʿd b. Nānū and Bū l-Rabīʿ al-Kohen in order to appoint his son Mufaḍḍal to lead the congregation (as judge?)[…] Yehuda mentions the Tāj (the Aleppo Codex) "which was written and pointed by Ben Asher or Ben Naftali" in the last line of the main text on verso.

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• alexandria
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• wine

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Document date

January 1120 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. Yosef Lebdi. Apparently When Yosef Lebdi was alive, Avraham and his mother lived in the Lebdi residence. […] Lebdi's widow, Sitt al-Ahl's mother, tried to stall and wait until Sitt al-Ahl's older brother, now the man of the house, came back from his journey. […] The story can also be read as how a young relative could pressure and almost bully his female cousin to agree to a marriage by coming into her house with two young male friends, while only her widowed mother and young brother were in the house.

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• betrothal
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• marriage

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Document date

last third of Ḥeshvan 1437 Seleucid (20 October 1125–29 October 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Memo about the actions taken by the rabbinical courts in Alexandria, in an unspecified place, in Fusṭāṭ, in Minyat Ziftā, and again in Fusṭāṭ. In Alexandria, Karīm b. ʿEli had received ten dinars from Abū l-Munā Iṣḥāq b. […] On examination, the court in Fusṭāṭ found that the mōdaʿ preceded the settlement in Alexandria and invalidated it, and instructed Avraham b.

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