Arabic legal and administrative documents in the Cambridge Genizah collections /

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Corporate author / creator:Cambridge University Library
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1993.
Description:xviii, 567 p. : facsims. ; 31 cm.
Language:English
Arabic
Series:Genizah series ; 10
Cambridge University Library. Genizah series 10.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1510175
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Other authors / contributors:Khan, Geoffrey
ISBN:0521451698
Notes:Arabic and English.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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