title: 5. Documents from the Muslim Community (?)
abstract: Chapter 5 presents six Genizah documents that, on the surface, are concerned entirely with Muslim affairs. Four of them, however, may bear some relation to the Jewish community. The first (Manchester G 63), dated 1594, is an Arabic marriage contract between a North African Muslim bride and groom; it is unusual in including an enslaved woman as part of the groom’s dower, and in requiring this woman to serve the groom’s brother. Documents 2 and 3 (T-S Ar. 39.153 and T-S NS 297.51) comprise part of
journal: Cambridge semitic languages and cultures