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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Legal documents in Arabic script. One each on recto and on verso. Needs examination.
Formularies for Arabic legal deeds. Recto is for a bill of (khulʿ) divorce.
Documents: Bill of Declaration- iqrar - needs examination.
Bill of Declaration. `Iqrar, dated 793 A.H. Mentions `Abās ibn Ḥusayn ibn `Abās (min ahl binā al-kubrā) and also mentions Mūsā ibn Yūsuf ibn Mūsā al-Yahūdī - needs examination.
Legal document- needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script, dated Ṣafar 1334 CE (735 Hijri). Sitt al-ʿAdā confirms to have received from [...] b. Samaw'il b. Rashīd b. Abū Saʿd al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār for the rent of a store in the Sūq al-Maghāriba 28 dirhams for the month of Muḥarram. Information from Goitein's note card.
Bifolium f. 1: beginning of the ophthalmological treatise Tadkirat al-kaḥḥalīn by ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā with table of contents on f. 1r. F. 1v: colophon. Separate leaf: record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to issue ‘the epistle of the elder ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā’ (i.e. the ophthalmological treatise Tadkirat al-kaḥḥalīn) to the amir Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab b. Muḥammad. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Deed of lease in Arabic script. The lessee is a Christian (al-Naṣrānī). On verso there is a faṣl/note probably related to the deed. Needs examination.
Legal query probably addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish woman whose husband converted to Islam and later traveled to India, where he seems to have disappeared. "Concerning a Jewish [man] who converted to Islam (aslama) and was attached to a Jewish woman, after he had converted, for a year. Then he wished to travel, and the aforementioned wife said to him, “You will not leave without giving me my bill of divorce,” to which he replied, “I won’t be gone but for a little while.” And he left and has now been missing for ten years. And she requests to [re]marry, seeing her dire economic condition, for she lacks support due to the hardships of the hour and the difficulties of the time. Is it possible that she will marry after all this time, and no news were heard from him, since he is in India (fī bilād alHind)?" Information from Yagur, "Several Documents from the Cairo Geniza Concerning Conversion to Islam" (2020). Verso contains piyyutim; Goitein's attached edition suggests that they may be in the hand of Ben Yijū.
Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: 10 Ṣafar 627 AH, which is January 1230 CE. One party is Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog and Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, p. 46.
Legal query addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult concerning the changes in synagogue ritual introduced by Avraham Maimonides. The senders of the query object to the innovations and hope that the Muslim government will also disapprove. See also AIU XI.258, one of the draft versions of this query. On verso there is a Hebrew liturgical text, possibly in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (compare Bodl. MS heb. b 13/41, written in his hand, one of the key documents of the prayer reform controversy). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Jumāda II, but the year is difficult to read. This is probably not a letter as catalogued.
Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). On verso there is a Hebrew piyyut/rahat.
Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). On verso there are Hebrew piyyutim.
Legal document in Arabic script. Declaration (iqrār). Dating: Perhaps 14th century, on paleographic grounds. The Qaraite Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. ʿAbd al-Karīm confirms to have received from the Qaraite [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Yūsuf known as Ibn Kūjik(?) something to do with the endowments (awqāf) of the Qaraite community. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog and Goitein's note card.
End of deed of sale to (or from) Abu Sa`d al-Israili (FGP)- Need examination
End of document - needs examination.
Late legal document in Arabic involving money owed between al-Muʿallim Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-ʿIzz and Isḥāq b. Mūsā al-Rabbān, and it seems others as well. Information from Goitein's note card.
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report?). Begins with a taqbīl clause (yuqabbilu l-arḍ) and then moves to the qiṣṣa (wa-yunhī). Mentions quires (ṣaḥāʾif), a shop (dukkān), possibly its movement from one town to another, a qāḍī, an iqṭāʿ, and someone's son.
