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Tag: islamic court
6 records found
Letter from Tiberias, containing a legal document recording their estate in the Muslim registration of Tiberias, dated 940. Ca. 1020
Court record about a debt. April 12, 1076. A person from the Ibn Awkal, declares that he owes 14 dinars to Yefet ha-Kohen b. Yeshua b. Kasasa, and commit to pay his debt one dinar a month. It seems like he commits not to use a different deed that was approved in a Muslim court. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #844) VMR
Letter in which the sender relates about some letters that reached him, discussing financial matters, among others some account books of different people and a registration document to be taken by the recipient to a Muslim judge, and also mentioning some letters that should be brought to Cairo. In the hand of Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī (Gil). The sender is in Būṣīr. He asks the recipient to obtain an order from the vizier to a head judge to investigate the expropriation of goods that belonged to a deceased so-and-so b. Salāma. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, p. 365.) Verso is blank.
Letter from Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen b. Judah b. Ṭoviyyahu, a recently appointed judge in al-Mahalla and Sammanūd, to Shemuel the cantor, praising the community for their regular attendance at the synagogue service and for coming to him rather than going to the Muslim court to solve their legal problems. (See also Mediterranean Society, II, 193, 203, 401, 563, 401, and V, 603, and Goitein's index cards)
Letter written by Mevōrākh b. Natan and signed in full by the Gaon Sār Shālōm ha-Levi. The latter rebukes the muqaddam, or head of the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, for neglecting essentials in favor of trifles, citing as an example the cases of two women, one of whom sent a proxy to the Gaon’s court over a matter of 1 and 11/24 dinars, and the other of whom vexed her son-in-law by intrusion into his house, unfounded accusations, and suits before Muslim courts. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 336, 502). EMS
Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain about his sister, Mubāraka. He asked the witnesses to go and convince her to retract her claim to a share from her father’s inheritance. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law, 346, 349.) EMS. Join: Oded Zinger.
