Debt documents in the Arabic papyrus: an unpublished papyrus from the Michaelides collection in the Cambridge University Library as an example.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

قسم الإرشاد السياحي - كلية السياحة والفنادق – جامعة مدينة السادات

Abstract

This article is an analytical study of Arabic papyrus debt documents, which are considered the most common legal documents in Islamic Egypt during the first three centuries of Hijrah, compared to contracts of sale, purchase, rent and other legal transactions. The article also edits and studies a hitherto unpublished new debt Arabic papyrus document from Cambridge University Library. In this document, two of the sons of a person named Yaqoub acknowledge that they are indebted to a person named Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Siri, and the value of this debt is thirty dinars. This papyrus is dated in the month of Sha`ban in the year (280 A.H.).

Keywords