מכתב: T-S Ar.40.56

תיאור

Letter from Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar, in Upper Egypt, to his family (his son Abū l-Maḥāsin and his wife), probably in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1167 CE. The sender is also known from ENA 1822A.75 (PGPID 5490). In this letter he praises Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn (here called Khalaf b. Maḍmūn) for his help after the sender had been stripped of everything by the Ghuzz (a Seljuk contingent) and for an invitation to Aden, from which he would proceed to India. Ḥalfon also took care of a young woman of the sender's family, who had been divorced by her husband in Aden, Abū ʿImrān who had converted to Islam (cf. T-S Ar.38.88 (PGPID 8218)). (Information mainly from Goitein and Friedman, India Book II.)