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Fatimid state document with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ka-mā huwa ahluhu). Many text blocks, many hands. On one side, l. 4 mentions al-Imām al-Mustanṣir Billāh …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. [...] the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq. Dated: 504 AH?
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
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Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to …
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Witness statement regarding the discovery of the corpse of Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, leader of the Jews of al-Maḥalla, who paid his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
لما كان بتاريخ الرابع والعشرين من ربيع الاول سنة …
It has been registered.
Praise be to God, who is sufficient for those who put in him their trust.
In the name of God, the merciful a…
Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...]. Dating: …
Letter from a man to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1238–52 CE, as it has to do with the removal of David I Maimonides …
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Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, …
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