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The Jewish Court of Aden
The Jewish court of Aden represented the Jewish community in that thriving port city in Yemen but had jurisdiction over Jews as far away as Ceylon and India, encompassing twenty port cities. The Aden court itself was under the legal authority of the Jewish court in Fustāt (Old Cairo).
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Letter to the Community of Dhū Jibla
[ . . . This is] what they said: in accordance with our father’s will, we demand our right, [and indeed they did not] produce a handwritten statement testifying to what was [due] them, nor a document…