T-S Ar.30.273

State petition. Recto: petition to the the imām Al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with goods. The merchant writes that he had already registered documents in the court of the judge Jalāl al-Mulk Tāj al-Aḥkam (Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Ayyūb al-Maḡribī) and asks for his property and freedom to be restored. Ca. 516-521 AH (= 1123-1127 CE). On verso there is Hebrew liturgical text. (information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below.
Editor: Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993); also ed. S. D. Goitein, India Book 6‎ (in Hebrew); also ed. and trans. S. M. Stern, "Three Petitions of the Fāṭimid Period," Oriens 15 (1962); also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5B.1.3%20India%20Book-%20Trade%20docs%20197-290/T-S%20Ar.%2030.273%20%28PGPID%209235%29.pdf.
Library: CUL
Type: State document
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