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Baqa ben Moses and Maymūna bat Ḥasan
10th Century
Nothing is known about the life of Abū Kāmil Baqa ben Moses or that of Maymūna bat Ḥasan, other than that they were Jews who belonged to the Babylonian community in Damascus in the first half of the tenth century and intended to marry.
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Babylonian Betrothal Agreement (Damascus)
[On] the fifth [day] of the week, 9 days in the month Adar I, year 3 of the sabbatical cycle, an intercalated year, which is year 4,693 A.M. in Damascus, Baqa b. Moses, known as Abū Kāmil, gave the…