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Prenup in Hebrew dated 1048 CE, in which the bride Fāʾiza makes her husband Ṭoviyya promise to give up his bad ways and drinking buddies after marriage—and to not buy a female slave without her express permission! From the Cairo Genizah, at Cambridge: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-000… pic.twitter.com/2B4BMharW9
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Musannaf
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(It's that one archive where you inevitably come across the most incredible finds, while looking for something else entirely!)
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Musannaf
@afzaque
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Turns out this document has a particular significance, as an early example of what Eve Krakowski calls "personalized behavioral stipulations" resembling those in Islamic marriage contracts. See her award-winning book: (of which I've yet to acquire a copy!) press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…
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Musannaf
@afzaque
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Here is a partial translation of the prenup: pic.twitter.com/eLGtdshdUU
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Musannaf
@afzaque
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Source: repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/27… (p. 16 of PDF) It's featured there alongside a number of other cool items from the major Genizah exhibition at Cambridge in 2017, which I sadly missed (but which my partner got to see, and saved the catalog for me all the way across the Atlantic!)
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Musannaf
@afzaque
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This document apparently caught the eye of a reporter who visited the exhibition in 2017 and dwells on it in the Guardian: theguardian.com/culture/2017/a… She also notes a case of "a wife threatening a hunger strike...in protest against her husband’s behaviour" (see p. 18 of above PDF) pic.twitter.com/EDAFqNhjt8
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Abdullah
@Abdulla_dabrani
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Oct 2 |
Is there a translation for the whole thing?
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Craig Perry
@Craig_A_Perry
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Indeed! Mordechai A. Friedman, “Pre-Nuptial Agreements with Grooms of Questionable Character: A Geniza Study,” Dine Israel VI (1975): CV–CXXII.
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Zarrar Khuhro
@ZarrarKhuhro
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Oct 2 |
Cc @JihadiJew @EdanRing you may like this
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Akbar Momand
@akb4rmomand
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Oct 2 |
Looks like men haven’t changed in over a thousand years
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AdamE
@aemLahave
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