Creator Bio
Abraham ben Isaac
Abraham ben Isaac, ca. 1030–ca. 1094
Originally from Tunisia, Abraham ben Isaac ha-talmid (the scholar) was a judge and scribe in Fustāt (Old Cairo). Documents in his hand date between 1077 and 1094. The contract of his marriage to Sitt al-Dār bat Abū ’l-Ṭayyib Ḥananya ha-Levi ha-Parnas in 1050 survives in the Cairo Geniza and attests to their wealth. Abraham engaged in mercantile activities, possibly in a formal capacity as overseer of a major, quasi-official financial institution called the House of Money Changing (Dār al-ṣarf).
Nothing is known about the lives of these three figures.
Content by Abraham ben Isaac
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Court Deposition (Fustāt, Egypt)
On Thursday, 6 Nissan 1396 AG [=9 April 1085 CE] according to the dating to which we are accustomed in Fustat-Mitzrayim, situated upon the River Nile, someone came [before the court] and mentioned…