Tag: wakil al-tujjar

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Fragmentary business letter anxiously inquiring about the state of the wakils and the effect of some unknown event on them and on the public. Dated to the beginning of the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, 190)
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.