Author
Honorary judge Al-Ansari Al-Shafi’i.
Author Original
القاضي الشرفي الأنصاري الشافعي
Publication Date
Dhul-Qi'dah 793 / October 1391
Publication Place
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Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Subject
Paper written on with ink.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الطول: 27 سم؛ العرض: 17.5 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
161 وثائق
Record ID
object;ISL;pa;Mus01;30;ar
Library Location
Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Date
Dhul-Qi'dah 793 / October 1391
Notes
The fragment is a document written on paper in a script that is somewhat difficult to read. The document consists of fifteen lines, some parts of which have been eroded in the middle of the first and second lines, causing the loss of the first name of its owner. The subject of the document is determining the inheritance of a patient on his deathbed. The document shows the possessions of its owner, whose name is “… Bin Hussein Al-Masoudi,” which include: a shirt, an antique scarf, two antique robes, and a wool headdress. The owner of the document was working as a lecturer in the Tanazi school in Jerusalem. He also worked as a glazier cutting glass and installing it in homes, in a shop he rented. His wife's name is Zainab, the daughter of Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Iskandari, and he has three daughters from her: Fatima, Khatun, and Rahma, and one son named Muhammad. The document shows his wife’s deferred dowry and rent for the shop. The owner of the document has relinquished his position in the Al-Tankazi school to his son Muhammad, provided that the school principal approves of this. The owner of the document has delegated the implementation of what was stated in his will to: Ahmed bin Othman bin Saif Al-Attal, and Hajj Ali bin Musa bin Ali Al-Nahhas. The document was registered by the honorary Sharia judge Al-Ansari Al-Shafi’i, the ruler of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and was witnessed by four witnesses, each of whom wrote his name at the end of the document after the text of the testimony, which reads, “I stood on the aforementioned and bore witness to that.” Such a document helps us in studying the social and economic life in the city of Jerusalem in the Mamluk era, as it is possible through it to know how jobs were exchanged and transferred from one person to another, the names and type of clothing that was widespread among the classes of society, the professions in which people worked, and the rents of shops. Real estate, and the prices of necessities. Through such a document, it is also possible to trace the work method of the court as an institution with a fundamental role in all aspects of life, and learn about the city’s management system in that era.
Sample Text
Khader Salameh “Inheritance Document” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pa;Mus01;30;ar
