מסמך משפטי: Yevr.-Arab. I 328

תיאור

Legal record (#89) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 30v-31r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Kislev 5325 AM (1564 CE). Dispute resolution related to the betrothal and engagement of Trkīye (תרכיה) bt. Farjallah b. Naṣrallah al-Levi al-Qayyīm, whose father Farjallah had reached an agreement with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khiḍr al-Fūlādī for her future marriage to ʿAbd al-Daʾīm (the latter's son). This agreement is alleged to have taken place two years ago, but Farjallah now claims he never swore an oath for this betrothal. Furthermore, the court notes that Trkīye and ʿAbd al-Daʾīm were both minors (ṣughār) at the time when the arrangements may have taken place. Trkīye has sinced reached maturity and is consulted by the court, stating that she is not content with the marital arrangements her father made. The case goes on to describe that Trkīye's (maternal) grandfather Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi al-Somekh al-Qayyīm "wrote a fatwa" in favor of his granddaughter's position, nullifying the arrangements her father Farjallah made when she was a minor. Trkīye is consulted again by the court, again confirming her discontent with the arrangements to marry ʿAbd al-Daʾīm (who is still a minor/ṣaghīr). The court case concludes with Trkīye's engagement to a different fiancé, Yosef b. ʿAbd al-Daʾīm al-Levi al-Qudsī, who makes marital payments of: 50 silver dirham + 26 gold ashrafī + 20 gold ashrafī. Based on Trkīye's paternal nomenclature and that of her maternal grandfather (al-Levi al-Qayyīm), it is possible that her parents were paternal cousins. MCD.