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Advance school on "Historical Formations of Spatial Knowledge"
Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

BL Or. 2538, f. 80r.

In 1465, Jewish conversos from Toledo, re-settled in Egypt, had to chose between Rabbanism and Qaraism.
When eventually Qaraism pervailed, with permission from the Muslim authorities, Qaraites mocked Rabbanites claiming they distort God's words, and permit anal sex.

And there was much rejoycing.

Paris BNF Ms. hebr. 834.

Dedication on a 15th c. manuscript, mentions "Shelomo ha-Kohen who was martyred... in Cairo" on the 10th of Sivan 1753 Sel., which corresponds to 20.5.1442 (Julian calendar) and 10th of Muḥarram 846.
An execution of Two Jewish leaders in Cairo during Muḥarram 846 is recorded in Muslim Chronicles.

Origin's location unknown today (Egyptian Museum?).
Photocopy at the NLI.
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic parts published in Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 432.

Deed of transfer of land - the Jewish rabbanite community of Cairo sells to a Jewish physician some land it owns in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, Qaḍīb street. With the proceeds they buy a ruined house "near the synagogue".

In Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. And a translation to Arabic.
1409 CE.

On the back side a note in Judeo-Aarbic: deed of sale a ruin in Fustat (miṣr al-ʿatīqa), al-Maṣāṣa neighborhood.

NLI Ms. Ar. 724.

A court deed from Cairo, probably 1209 AD.
Nūr al-dīn ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa buys from the Coptic patriarch a ruined property in maṣūṣa in Fustat.

He then sells it to Ibrāhīm b. Sayyār, the Karaite Jew (al-yahūdī al-qarā).