Request Presented to the Fātimid Caliph (Egypt)

. . . his death, and af[ter him he ap]pointed Yūsuf al-Harūnī [the Kohen] . . . [may God have mercy on him], and Yūsuf al-Harūnī did not cease in administering [his orders] . . . [until today] Josiah [Ga’on; d. 1025], the head of the academy, may God be pleased with him. After [his death, in the days of Solomon al-Harūnī], when Solomon al-Harūnī [ha-Kohen Ga’on], the head of the yeshiva, died [also in 1025], the administration [of the academy] was in the hands of Solomon ben Judah al-Fāsī [of Fez], who remains until today [the head of the academy], may God make permanent his glory. [Solomon] invested Yūsuf al-Harūnī [with leadership of the Rabbanite Jews] of the port of Alexandria, so he may watch over everything that he has [to do] according [to his position] . . . [overseeing] their laws, organizing their affairs, contracting their weddings and divorces according to the practice of their school of law [i.e., Rabbanite Judaism]; and to appoint ḥazans [and] . . . [in] their synagogues [and to appoint] one who will oversee what is spent for them, and to dismiss those he decides to dismiss [from their communal leadership positions]. When someone is opposed to him . . . except for the head of the academy, whom he appointed and entrusted and . . . when we asked the questioner, he authorized his questions [Hebrew unclear]. We wrote our testimony concerning what . . . [what we knew] about it and we wrote his signature and signed on the day . . .

Source: CUL T-S NS 320.45.