Tag: dammuh

24 records found
T-S Misc.8.72
Genealogical list. Details about the family of Salīm al-Ghazūlī the Levi. Perhaps for the purpose of dividing an inheritance. The wife of Salīm's son Yūsuf is the daughter of Ṭāhir the Deaf, the beadle of Dammūh. Information in part from Goitein's note card.
T-S NS 292.24
Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Rabbenu Eliyya (might be the judge Eliyya b. Zekharya). Fragment (top part only). About work on a Bible codex (muṣḥaf) in Dammūh. As soon as someone brings it, the sender will send it on to Eliyya. AA
T-S NS J303a
Goitein: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking for oil to be purchased for the synagogue in Dammūh. Yefet also mentions the arrival of ships from Al-Andalus (Spain) and al-Mahdiyya. Greetings are sent to Sitt Naʿīm, Ḥalfon's wife. Gil edited this letter but misidentified the sender as David b. ʿAmmār Madīnī. (Information from CUDL and Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #658). ASE
Yevr.-Arab. II 1589
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown, but both are Qaraites. The letter describes the great solidarity of the Qaraites and how they protect each other from the impact of oppressive decrees of the government. It also discusses Dammūh. The Rabbanites go there year-round, whereas the Qaraites mainly go there during the month of Adar. Needs further examination.