ENA NS I.37

Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1065 CE. Fragment (right side only). Discusses: the rain and the snow in Jerusalem; a man from Seville ("al-Andalusī al-Ishbīlī); the addressee passing on the sender's news to Ṣāḥib al-Mulk; Avraham b. al-Rayyis Abū Sahl (=Avraham b. Natan?); "[you should] inform the owner (of the house) the trials I suffered this year in/concerning this house, and the demands/lawsuits of "the fortress" (אלחצן) every day, from the government (al-sulṭān), and the people of the city...." (Information in part from Gil's edition.)
Editor: Ed. and trans. Moshe Gil, "More About Palestine During the First Muslim Period‎" (in Hebrew), Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv‎ 70 (1994).
Library: JTS
Type: Letter