Arabic legal and administrative documents in the Cambridge Genizah collections
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Arabic legal and administrative documents in the Cambridge Genizah collections
(Cambridge University Library Genizah series, 10)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. xii-xviii
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work is a description and edition of medieval Arabic legal and administrative documents written in Arabic script that are found in the Cambridge Genizah collections. The majority of these documents (desciptions of 159 are contained in the volume) were produced in Fustat (old Cairo) in the Fatimid period (10th-12th centuries AD), and most were written by Muslim notaries or officials, although a large number of them concern Jews. The documents constitute a unique source for the social and political history of medieval Egypt, especially with regard to the relations between Jews and Muslims. They also offer a penetrating insight into the practice of law in medieval Islam and the administrative structure of government offices. Nearly all the documents in the volume have not been studied before. They comprise important primary source material for a number of disciplines, including Middle Eastern history, Jewish history, Arabic philology, and Islamic law.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and references
- Introduction
- Part I. Legal Documents: 1. Documents of sale
- 2. Documents of lease
- 3. Documents of endowment
- 4. Marriage contracts
- 5. Acknowledgements
- 6. Testimonies and depositions by witnesses
- 7. Declarations
- 8. Court records
- 9. Powers of attorney. 10. Contract of a tax farmer
- 11. Questions to jurisconsults
- Part II. Administrative Documents: 12. Petitions
- 13. Documents relating to the processing of petitions in the Chancery
- 14. Reports to the Chancery
- 15. Dispositive documents
- 16. Reports of death
- 17. Accounts
- 18. Orders for payments and receipts
- 19. Receipts relating to the tax farm of 'Abu al-Hasan ibn Wahb
- Indexes
- Plates.
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