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Cairo Genizah : Legal document; piyyuṭ

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: petition to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār regarding a fief worth 5500 dinars and a village of 1000 faddān (roughly 1000 acres) that were repossessed by the judge in Minyat Ḡamr and who did not return them even after the issue of a decree by the wazīr. The petition indicates that some of the grounds in discussion are cultivated with sugar cane. Dated 544-548 AH (= 1149-1153 CE). On verso and between the lines of the petition on recto there are piyyuṭim including a seliḥa and a rešut.</p>

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