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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 5263944, member: 93416&quot;]Can any kind soul assist?</p><p><br /></p><p>Medieval sources repeatedly mention a Jewish guy variously called Sumayr or Sumoir (or indeed all sorts of variants on the modern Samir). In the 15th century Maqrizi was quite clear that Sumayr was the man who created the enormously influential Islamic weight system of ‘Abd al-Malik around 697-99 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern academic scholarship seems to have turned its back on Sumayr – bit I chanced upon a reference to this book (which the reference suggests makes a bigger effort to account for the event (?))</p><p><br /></p><p>Walter J. Fischel, Jews in the Economic and Political Life of Medieval Islam. Revised ed. New York 1969</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect a scan of a couple of pages of text and maybe a page of footnotes will cover what is there, if any generous person has access to it and can supply.</p><p><br /></p><p>My local university has a copy, but I am shut out due to covid, and there are no cheap 2nd hand copies in the UK.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW – I already corresponded with a fellow who seems to be a current world academic expert on this matter, and he instructed me to believe that Samayr did not exist. Did not offer any evidence. Since I already long since believed academic life has been going to the dogs since about 1970, I discounted that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob</p><p><br /></p><p>PS write me direct for contact details[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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