מסמך משפטי: T-S AS 182.291
מסמך משפטי T-S AS 182.291What's in the PGP
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Legal query to Muslim jurisconsults regarding the practice of prostration (sujūd) and genuflection (rukūʿ) during the synagogue liturgy. This practice had been customary for the previous twenty years, and this legal query is reporting concerns regarding its recent abrogation. Dating: ca. 638 AH, which is 1240–41 CE. This was written after the death of Avraham Maimonides, who had instituted the innovative practices. The top margins of recto and verso contain writing exercises. (Information from CUDL)
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Editor: Khan, Geoffrey
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S AS 182.291 1r
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Recto
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- ما يقول السادة الفقها الائمة ائمة الدين وقدوة
- المسلمين وفقهم الله الطاعتــــ[ــهــــ]ـــــم واعانهم على مرضاته
- في جماعة من اليهود الذين يرجع اليهم الكلمة وهم
- رئيس اليهود و من تبعه من علمائهم اثبتوا الركوع و السجود
- في دينهم وقالوا ان ذلك كان من شرعهم قديم فاقاموا
- ما كان داثر من دينهم و اثبتوا و علموا به مدة سنين
- متطاولة نحو عشرين سنة فلما مات الرئيس الذى لهم قام
- من ليس هو من اهل العلم تكلم على خلاف من [ [ا] ] تقدم
- من علمائهم و انكر الركوع و السجود ماذا يلزمه
- على مخالفته ان كان يخالف افتونا يرحمكم الله
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Recto
- In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
- What do our lords, the jurisconsults, the imāms, imāms of the religion and model
- of the Muslims, may God grant them success for their obedience and assist them to gain his satisfaction, say concerning the following.
- A group of Jews whose word is authoritative, namely
- the head of the Jews and those of their sages who are his followers, have established the practice of genuflection and prostration
- in their worship. They have stated that this was an ancient practice and that they have revived
- an aspect of worship that had fallen into disuse. They established and practiced it over a long period,
- amounting to approximately twenty years. When their head died,
- a man who was not a sage took office. He spoke against the earlier (opinion) of
- their sages and disapproved of genuflexion and prostration. What action should be taken with regard to him
- on account of his opposition, if he opposes (the practice). Grant us your opinion, may God have mercy upon you.
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