Declaration of Assets and Liabilities (Egypt)

Maymūn ibn Khalfah al-Maghrebī

1072

We the witnesses who have signed below were in the presence of Maimūn b. Khalfah al-Magh[rebī], known as Ibn al-Yatīm, at a time that he was sick. We therefore inquired of him concerning what other people owed him and what he owed others, in connection with his being sick in a strange country—for perhaps, goodness forbid, death might come to him…

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This Judeo-Arabic declaration records the financial situation of Maymūn (Maimūn) ibn Khalfah, who fell ill in Egypt during a journey from North Africa. Maymūn had arrived on a ship belonging to another Jew, Abū ’l-Surūr Faraḥ ben ‘Aṭīyyah, and had carried with him a number of goods entrusted to him by different countrymen. An Islamic marriage contract in Arabic script from about four decades earlier appears on the other side of this document, illustrating the recycling of documents by Jews in this period. The ellipsis indicates a lacuna in the manuscript.

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Maymūn ibn Khalfah al-Maghrebī

d. after 1072

Almost nothing is known about Maymūn ibn Khalfah al-Maghrebī. He was a Jewish merchant trader, acting as the agent for several Jewish sellers, who traveled from North Africa to Fustāt (Old Cairo).

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