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qāḍī” attesting a debt owed to Migran by the qā’id El Ham Ben Ham El Harari El Faryani for
“406 Napoleons of sugar, tea, etc., dated 27 Dhū al-Qa‘da 1283 (2 March 1867).” 84 The entry
included three more bills of debt owed by Faryani to Migran, two legalized by ‘udūl and one
signed only by Faryani himself. 85 Judah returned with more claims on Migran’s behalf on
November 2, 7, 9, 14, and 16. 86 There were twenty-nine such sessions in all, the last one held on
January 18, 1872. 87 The commission examined a total of 149 documents presented by twenty-
three foreign subjects and protégés—eleven of whom were Jewish—from all six participating
states (in addition to Migran the Swedish protégé).
Alongside the work of the commission, Makhzan officials convened a “Moroccan
Tribunal” (Tribunal Marroquí) to rule on the claims presented by foreign subjects and protégés.
The qāḍī of Azzemour, Aḥmad b. al-Ṭālib b. Sūda, 88 presided over the tribunal. The other legal
authorities present were the muftīs ‘Abdallāh al-Bagrāwī 89 and ‘Abd al-Salām b. Hamū (or
Ḥasūn, or Ḥasam) al-Wazzānī, 90 the qāḍī of Rabat Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, 91 and two unnamed
84 AGA, Caja M 9, Exp. no. 1 (81/9), Diario de los Sesiones de la Comisión Mixta Internacional, libro primero, p.
20. Note that the Hijrī date actually corresponds to 2 April 1867; it is likely that the Hijrī date was correct and that
someone made an error in converting it to the Gregorian calendar.
85 These were from 5 Rabī‘ II 1284 (6 August 1867), and two from 17 Dhū al-Qa‘da 1283 (23 March 1867, though
mistakenly recorded as 22 April 1867) (p. 21-2).
86
AGA, Caja M 9, Exp. no. 1 (81/9), Diario de los Sesiones de la Comisión Mixta Internacional, libro primero, p.
23-7, 30-8, 43-5, 47-50.
87
AGA, Caja M 9, Exp. no. 1 (81/9), Diario de los Sesiones de la Comisión Mixta Internacional, libro segundo, p.
102.
88 Aḥmad b. al-Ṭālib b. Muḥammad Fatḥan b. Sūda (b. 29 Rajab 1241/ 9 March 1826, d. 10 Rajab 1321/ 2 October
1903) was from a learned family in Fez. He served first as qāḍī in Azzemour in 1285/ 1868-9, then in 1292/ 1875-6
he was appointed as qāḍī of Tangier. Finally, in 1294/ 1877-8, when his brother Abū ‘Īsā Muḥammad al-Mahdī
died, he became the qāḍī of Meknes and participated in the royal majlis. See especially Muḥammad al-Ḥafīẓ b.
Muḥammad al-Ṭāhir al-Fāsī, Mu‘jam al-shuyūkh al-musammā riyāḍ al-janna (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-‘ilmīya,
2003), 80-2 and al-Marrākushī, al-I‘lām bi-man ḥalla Marrākush, v. 2, 455-7. See also Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-
Ḥajawī, Al-Fikr al-Sāmī fī tārīkh al-fiqh al-islāmī, 4 vols. (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-‘ilmīya, 1995), v. 4, 369-70:
Berque, L’intérieur du Maghreb, 478, 492.
89 Abū Sālim ‘Abdallāh b. Idrīs b. ‘Abdallāh al-Bagrāwī (d. 29 Dhū al-Ḥijja 1316/ 10 May 1899) was from an
important Fāsī family and was known as one of the great scholars of his day. He lived and taught in Fez his whole
life. See al-Fāsī, Mu‘jam al-shuyūkh, 220-2. See also Berque, L’intérieur du Maghreb, 492.
90 See the brief mention of him as participating in the Mixed Tribunal in al-Fāsī, Mu‘jam al-shuyūkh, 81, 221.
91 See the brief mention of him as participating in the Mixed Tribunal in ibid.
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