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Cairo Genizah : Letter

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Personal letter (11th century CE), from a man who had been ill in Constantinople for the past two and a half years. He asks his family to persuade the collector of the poll tax to register him as a newcomer to avoid having to pay taxes for previous years. Mentions Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh, Abū l-Surūr, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAmšāṭī, and Joseph ‘who lives beneath the Muʿallaqa Church’.</p>

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