Documents of the Jerusalem al-Ḥaram aš-šarīf

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The Islamic Museum in Jerusalem, where the documents were found

The documents of the Jerusalem al-Ḥaram aš-šarīf or Jerusalem Ḥaram documents or documents of the Ḥaram Šarīf or briefly Haram collection or Ḥaram documents (English Ḥaram documents / Haram al-Sharīf collection / etc.) or Mamlūk documents of the Ḥaram Šarīf or private documents of the Islamic Museum on the Jerusalem Temple Mount etc. are medieval, predominantly Arabic-language private documents of the Islamic Museum on the Jerusalem Haram al-Sharif ( Arabic الحرم الشريف, DMG al-ḥaram aš-šarīf  'the noble sanctuary') or "Temple Mount" ( הר הבית Har haBait ) in the southeast part of the old city of Jerusalem .

These are edicts, petitions and official letters, hundreds of private documents that provide insights into the living conditions and economic behavior of the middle and lower classes of the Muslim majority of the Mamluks in Jerusalem and Palestine .

The documents were discovered by Amal Abul-Hajj , the curator of the Islamic Museum. Most of them date from the end of the 14th century. Donald P. Little ( catalog et al.), Huda Lutfi and, more recently, Christian Müller contributed to the research of the documents .

literature

  • Christian Müller: Écrire pour établir la preuve orale en Islam: La pratique d'un tribunal à Jérusalem au XIVe siècle (with annotated text examples from Haram documents No. 39 and No. 720: Arabic / French translation)
  • Christian Müller: “The Haram al-Sharīf collection of Arabic legal documents in Jerusalem: a Mamlūk court archive?” Al-Qantara: Revista de Estudios Arabes Vol. 32, Issue 2. Date: 12/30/2011 Pages: 435-459. ( Accessible online )
  • Christian Müller: Qāḍī court and legal administration in Jerusalem. Study of the Mamluk documents of Ḥaram Šarīf. (Habilitation thesis Halle, Wittenberg, 2007, unpublished)
  • LS Northrup and AA Abul-Hajj, "A Collection of Medieval Arabic Documents in the Islamic Museum at the Haram al-Sharif, Arabica, vol. 25 (1978)
  • Little, Donald P .: A Catalog of the Islamic documents from Al-Ḥaram Aš-Šarif in Jerusalem. Beirut: Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society; Wiesbaden: Steiner [in Komm.], 1984. Beirut texts and studies; 29. ISBN 3-515-03699-7 (see second-hand bookshop catalog )
  • Huda Lutfi: Al-Quds al-Mamlûkiyya: a history of Mamlûk Jerusalem based on the Ḥaram documents. Berlin: Schwarz, 1985 ( excerpt ); Ulrich Haarmann review (Die Welt des Islams New Series, vol. 29, no. 1/4 (1989), pp. 178-181); Review: Al-Quds Al-Mamelukiyya: A History of Mamluk Jerusalem based on the Haram Documents (Jerusalem Quarterly Vol: 1, no.1 , Fall 1998)
  • Little, Donald P .: "Haram documents related to the Jews of late fourteenth Century Jerusalem", in: Journal of Semitic Studies 30 (1985), pp. 227-64 ( online excerpt )
  • Little, Donald P .: The Significance of the Haram Documents for the Study of Medieval Islamic History; The islam. Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 189–219 ( online excerpt )
  • W. Diem: Philological information on Mamlūk decrees, submissions and official correspondence from Jerusalem's al-Ḥaram aš-šarif. Journal of Arabic Linguistics (1997) ( see web link )
  • Heinz Halm , Ulrich Haarmann : History of the Arab world. CHBeck 2004 ( online excerpt )
  • Amikam Elad, A. Elad and Ami Elad: Islamic History and Civilization, Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship: Holy Places, Ceremonies, Pilgrimage (Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500). Brill Academic Pub (2009) ( online excerpt )
  • Ulrich Haarmann : The Library of a fourteenth century Jerusalem scholar (PDF; 769 kB) - freidok.uni-freiburg.de

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. unesco.org: Safeguarding, Refurbishment and Revitalization of the Islamic Museum of the Haram al-Sharif and its Collections & Khader Salameh: The Qu'ran Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem etc.
  2. ↑ cf. archnet.org: Haram al-Sharif ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archnet.org
  3. ↑ jstor.org ; s. a. Archibald G. Walls and Amal Abul-Hajj: Arabic inscriptions in Jerusalem: a handlist and maps. ISBN 0905035283
  4. ↑ Amikam Elad & al., P. 3 with note 6.