T-S Misc.28.256

Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: October/November 1140 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the plunder of Aden (involving a person called al-Dughaym and the struggle between "the two Sultans" (=ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ghārāt and Sabaʾ b. Abū Suʿūd)), losses at sea, and the sender's failure in purchasing a household male slave (waṣīf) from a ship from East Africa (Bilād al-Zanj) containing newly enslaved individuals (raqīq). (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book II-48.)
Editor: Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5B.2.2%20India%20book-131-196/T-S%20Misc.%2028.256_2%20%28PGPID%209250%29%20.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/4C.2.20%20Notes%20to%20India%20Book%20131-196/T-S%20Misc.%2028.256_1%20%28PGPID%209250%29.pdf.
Library: CUL
Type: Letter
Translation: Goitein, S.D. & Friedman, M.A., India Traders of the Middle Ages, II-48