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  1. 1LetterNLI 577.10/9

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Letter to the Gaon in Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that he has not yet been able to find a riding animal …

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  2. 2Legal documentENA 3924.1

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    Arabic

    Muslim legal query with responsum (fatwā). The query concerns a young Jewish man who insulted a venerable Jewish rabbi (...ḥākhān ʿālim al-yahūdī...) by calling him …

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  3. 3Legal documentENA 3957.4

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    Arabic

    Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …

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  4. 4Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 806

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    Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

    Two legal documents concerning the same case. The first is a Muslim legal query together with the ruling/fatwā, in Arabic script. The second is a …

    1. ما  قولكم دام فضلكم في يهودية هلكت عن زوجها واخيها فتعرض لهما رجل و طلب اخذ دراهم رشوة علي عادتهم فهل
    2. لا تطيب له الدراهم الماخوذة علي هذا الوجه و به…

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  5. 5Legal documentT-S AS 44.32

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    Arabic

    Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ regarding liability for damaged property. The house of a Muslim had collapsed …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. ما يقول سيدنا الشيخ الفقيه المولا الزاهد العابد
    3. شهاب الدين وفقه الله لطاعيه في رجل
    4. يهودى له دار متسفلة و بجانبها…

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    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  
    2. What does our lord the elder, the jurisconsult, the master, the ascetic, the pious…

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  6. 6Legal documentCUL Or.1080 15.62

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    Arabic

    Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye …

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    1. ما يقول السادة الفقها ائمة الدين وهداة المسلمين 
    2. في رجل يهودي كحال وهو دون لحية وقد شهدت
    3. له عدول الاسلام بنه مامون في تصرفه لان يدخل 
    4. على حرم …

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    1. What do the masters, the jurisprudents, the 'imāms of the religion and guides of  the Muslims, say  
    2. regarding a Jewish eye-doctor, without a …
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  7. 7Legal documentENA 684.4

    Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words ʾallaḏī ... …

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  8. 8State documentT-S Ar.41.43

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    Arabic

    Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …

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  9. 9LetterENA NS 45.2

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …

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    1. ] יכתב(?) מכאן(?) כלפה(?) . . . .
    2. פיה אללה יעינך ויגע{ל}ני פדאך מן כל באס
    3. ומא וצל מן ענד אלמולא כתאב מן חין(?)
    4. סאפרת אלא פרד כתאב וגמ/י/עהם מ…

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  10. 10LetterT-S Misc.24.56

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in …

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  11. 11LetterIOM D 55.4

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 23 Nisan 1532 Seleucid, which is 1221 CE. There …

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  12. 12Legal documentT-S Ar.40.96

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Legal query probably addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish woman whose husband converted to Islam and later traveled to India, …

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  13. 13LetterT-S 8J20.8

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter apparently from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fusṭāṭ, to an unidentified addressee, apparently in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing news about Aden. Commodities include: pearl (luʾlūʾ), …

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