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Tag: qadi courts
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India Book I, 8: Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. This is the verso of the second leaf of the bifolium that CUL Add.3420 once comprised. Goitein cited this side as CUL Add.3420d. At the bottom of the document there is a separate record (not found here) dealing with a complaint of Karima, known as Wuhsha. The recto contains the text of I, 15 and CUL Add.3420.1 contains the text of I, 3. At this court session it was agreed that Yosef Lebdi should settle his accounts with Yequtiʾel. He would then be entitled to take out of Yequtiel warehouse all the goods to which the latter could not make claim. Both agreed not to appeal to a Muslim court. The document is written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli and is dated April 19, 1098.
Verso: Legal document in which a debtor Khalaf must pay to Faḍā'il only one half of the sum stipulated in the Muslim documents. Signed by Shelomo b. Seʿadya and Avraham b. Natan. Dated: Nisan 1471 Seleucid, which is March-April 1160 CE. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.34 as ENA 4011.33.
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 AM, which is 27 April 1556 CE. May be a copy or a version of a document originally produced in a Muslim court: mentions "the Mālikī court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya" in line 2. Yosef Qalʿī owes Sar Yiṣḥaq 2000 medins every month. Eliezer Ashkenazi is involved as a guarantor. On verso there are additional notes, probably related to recto. At the bottom of the page it appears that the Sar acknowledges receipt of one of the monthly payments. Information in part from A. David's edition on FGP.
