Letter from Alexandria describing the writer\u2019s attempts to have a man punished by the Muslim authorities for offending Jewish religious sensibilities. After deliberating whether to bring the case to the qadī or the wālī, the writer sent a secret message to the muḥtasib (to whom he was not personally known) asking that the offender be lightly punished. The muḥtasib then had the offender brought before the wālī, who ruled that the man should be publicly flogged. He was then dragged around Qamra, a Jewish quarter of Alexandria, while the wālī\u2019s messengers announced his crimes against religion to the public. Ca. 1240 CE.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1240 CE" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Letter" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "CUL" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "T-S 16.231" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Cairo Genizah" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Judaeo-Arabic" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "29 lines + marginalia (recto); 34 lines + marginalia (verso)" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by Cambridge University Library. Zooming image © Cambridge University Library, All rights reserved. This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact genizah@lib.cam.ac.uk. This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.", "structures": [{ "canvases": [ "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-TS-00016-00231/canvas/1", "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-TS-00016-00231/canvas/2" ], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/MS-TS-00016-00231/range/DOCUMENT", "label": "Letter" }], "description": "
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