Deed of Receipt (Fustāt, Egypt)

This Judeo-Arabic document serves as a receipt for repayment of a loan that Solomon ben Ḥayim had made to the Rabbanite community of Jerusalem. Solomon loaned some twenty dinars at no interest and was reimbursed by Eli ha-Kohen ben Yaḥyā, who served in an official capacity in the Jerusalem charitable trust in Egypt. The repayment was made from a compound in Fustāt (Old Cairo) that was dedicated to assisting destitute Jews from Jerusalem. This document is signed by some of the leading figures of Fustāt Jewry in the late eleventh century, including David ben Daniel ben ‘Azariah.