מסמך משפטי: NLI Ms. Ar. 276.10

תיאור

Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 19 Rabīʿ II 1056 AH = 4 June 1646 CE. Judge: Muḥammad Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn al-Marzūqī al-Mālikī. It begins by stating that the Rabbanite Jewish woman Ḥabība bt. غروز b. مصبلح gave (tabarraʿat) a sum of 700 medins (min al-fiḍḍa al-anṣāf al-ʿadadiyya) to another Rabbanite Jewish woman, Najma a.k.a. Nujūm bt. Reʾuven b. Mordekhay (روبين بن مردخاي). This "gift" is in exchange for Nujūm ceding her rights of khuluww, suknā (dwelling), and intifāʿ (enjoyment) pertaining to two shops in Ḥārat al-Yahūd (وذلك في نظر اسقاط حقها لها من الخلو والسكنى والانتفاع بجميع الحانوتين الكائنين بحارة اليهود) to Ḥabība. Khuluww refers to the building of stores on waqf land in return for paying money to the waqf; see al-Marakeby, M. (2021). Could Women Own Agricultural Land? Rethinking the Relationship of Islamic Law and Contextual Reality (Wāqiʿ). Die Welt des Islams, 63(2), 184–212. The document then describes the location of the shops. One is near the cistern (ṣihrīj) where Farajallāh al-Khayyāṭ lived; the other is known as the dwelling of Saʿīd b. Abū l-Khayr al-Yahūdī al-Qaṣṣāb, near the fishmarket (sūq al-samak). There is a reference to the waqf of the late ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk. Regarding Nujūm's own original right to khuluww and intifāʿ, she possesses a document from another neighborhood court in Cairo, the Maḥkama al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya, drawn up under the late qāḍī Muḥammad Ẓahīr al-Dīn المحرزي al-Ḥusaynī al-Mālikī and dated 15 Muḥarram 1045 AH = 1 July 1635 CE. The remainder of this document consists of legal formulae of acknowledgment and mutual release. Eight witnesses sign at the bottom (of whom two also signed AIU XII.173 (PGPID 31084)). The judge's tawqīʿ appears at top, along with a seal. There are several filing notes on verso in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic, as follows: - حجة حبيبة وقف عبد القادر السماك - حجة بحانوتين بحارة اليهود بجوار الصهريج بالقرب من سوق السمك باسم حبيبة - חוגת מושתרא אל דוכאניין מן נשֿמה - משה כלפון (it's not clear what this is referring to) For document images and information on provenance, see the 2009 NLI catalogue entry by Ephraim Wust: https://www.nli.org.il/ar/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990029250640205171/NLI#$FL188116337. NLI Ms. Ar. 276.10 corresponds to images 1–2 at the link above.