T-S 13J33.9

Petition from the Jewish community of Alexandria to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). Complaining about oppressive and fraudulent collection of the capitation tax. There are three wicked officials: Ḥasan b. Karām b. Iskandar the jahbadh, ʿUmar b. [...], and Yaḥyā ("may he not live!") b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn Ukht Badīʿ(?). They are issuing receipts without having them registered in the supervising dīwān (wa-lam yuthbithā fī l-dīwān), which enables them to extort a second payment—one for their own pockets, and one for the dīwān. Among the bad effects are "the cutting-off of craftsmanship and the raping of women and the attacking of [houses and the exposing of the] head before the tax collectors." (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's attached notes.)
Editor: Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6B.1.2%20Mediterranean%20people_%20poll%20tax/T-S%2013J33.9_2%20%28PGPID%208067%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5D.1.2%2013J25-37_%20pt%202/T-S%2013J33.9_1%20%28PGPID%208067%29.pdf.
Library: CUL
Type: Letter