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Joseph ibn Tsedakah and Ghaniyya bint Ḥasan
11th Century
Nothing is known about the lives of Joseph ibn Tsedakah and Ghaniyya bint Ḥasan, though their divorce settlement from 1052 is preserved in a document from the Cairo Geniza. They had one son named Ibrahīm.
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Divorce Settlement (Egypt)
On Monday, 24 Tishrei [1]364 AG [= 21 September 1052 CE], R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] bt. R. Ḥasan came before the court. We made the symbolic…