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Who gets the inheritance: the daughter's husband or the apostate brother?

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Unique document. an unknown letter to Moses Maimonides

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it is really fun to piece together a medieval puzzle. Both in the sense of a physical jigsaw puzzle and to puzzle the family dispute

Oded Zinger
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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This page is a summary of: “One Hour He Is a Christian and the Next He Is a Muslim!” A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza, Al-Masāq, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2018.1542572.
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